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Godowsky Java Suite

A world premiere recording of Godowsky's Java Suite is surprising until you stop to confront its savagely ornate and idiosyncratic...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2000

Schubert Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2;Notturno;Sonata for Arpeggione

These discs begin with an outstanding performance of the Arpeggione Sonata. The recording is clear and spacious, and the outer...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1997

Lumbye Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Having already embraced the Strausses and Waldteufel, Marco Polo’s wide-ranging coverage of the works of nineteenth-century dance composers here strikes...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1998

Scriarrino (La) Bocca, I Piedi, Il Suono

Anyone expecting a work including 100 saxophones to be a riot of buzzing sound will be very surprised by one...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 1/2005

Dvorák Symphony 7

I cordially welcomed Carlos Paita's LP of Dvorak'S D minor Symphony as a performance combining lyrical ardour and warmth; and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1985

Elgar Cello Concerto; Arrangements for Cello and Orchestra

As Natalie Clein said in her Gramophone interview (9/07), she hopes that in her recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007

Steven Isserlis - Revisions

The cynic might surmise that this is the sort of disc that a cellist produces when he has exhausted important...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 13/2010

South American Getaway

The accordion, I confess, is not my favourite instrument, but when handled as virtuosically as by Mika Vayrynen and in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2000

Monteverdi Erotic Madrigals & their Sacred Contrafacta

This is the third release in The Consort of Musicke's survey of composers who explored the refined courtly aesthetic adopted...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/1994

Beethoven Violin Sonatas

These performances are brimful of life; there’s a sense of joy and freedom, with fast passagework that’s exceptionally clear and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2010

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