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Maxwell Davies - A Tribute

This is a portrait of a musician who, in the 12 years covered (1960-72), evolved from being a schoolmaster to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2004

Chants d'Auvergne

The lusciousness of this issue, recording as well as performance, comes out the more ravishingly in the Compact Disc format....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1983

Schubert 'Rosamunde' Incidental Music

How ironic that Schubert’s best-loved stage music should be associated with such an absurd farrago as Wilhelmina von ChÈzy’s ìgrand...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2011

R. Strauss Intermezzo

Sheer joy, this CD transfer, still the only recording easily available of what is increasingly coming to be regarded as...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Hasse Piramo e Tisbe

When Hasse (who had been a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti) wrote Piramo e Tisbe in 1768, he already had over...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1994

Massenet Werther

This film was made in 1955 but in a style that was already long out of date. The singers act...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2009

Scriabin Late Piano Works

Virtuoso ease and well modulated, evenly balanced sonorities have always marked Paul Crossley’s way with repertoire that fuses thorny and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2008

Clemens non Papa Behold, how joyful!

The last disc devoted to Jacobus Clemens I listened to was The Tallis Scholars’ recording of his Mass Pastores, quidnam...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2005

Beethoven; Ravel; Schumann Piano Works

Sergei Dukachev’s miscellany clearly aims to show his musical scope and range, whether in the virtuoso ebullience of Beethoven’s Op...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Stephen Hough's Mozart Album

This is the kind of musical meal that any pianist with the imagination and culinary skills of a good chef...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008

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