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Mompou Piano Works

Back in March 2000 I remarked that Martin Jones’s scrupulously sensitive but self-effacing artistry made you long for a complete...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2004

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (highlights)

Handel has the lion's share in this enjoyable mixed bag of arias, sacred and secular, well and less-well known, and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1988

Dedicated to Christian Lindberg

In the wake of the charming pair of Nordic trombone concerto discs I reviewed in the May issue comes another...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2007

Polish Chamber Orchestra live in Glasgow

Relatively few releases present a good case for live recordings: this one, however, most certainly does! Here we find that...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Claudio Arrau's one previous recording of the Diabelli Variations was made in 1952 and issued here on the Brunswick label...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1987

R. Strauss Elektra

What is undoubtedly one of the greatest performances ever on record sounds even more terrifyingly realistic on CD. There are...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1986

Davies, HW Everyman

Henry Walford Davies’s splendid oratorio was written and first heard in 1904, in the shadow of Elgar’s Gerontius. Yet it...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2005

MacMillan Northern Skies - Works for Cello and Piano.

MacMillan’s two cello sonatas were composed in 1998 and 2000, yet in many ways they are poles apart. The two-movement...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2007

Schoeck Works for Horn and Orchestra

Best known for his wonderful songs, which number over 300, and his operas, Schoeck composed comparatively little pure instrumental music...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1997

Verdi Falstaff

A huge triumph for Glyndebourne, this. But before going on to particularise, perhaps we should tip some of our bouquets...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

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