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Bowen, Y (The) Piano Sonatas

No better example of Hyperion’s founding principles could be imagined than this disc of three premiere recordings contributing to the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2009

Horowitz in Moscow

The return to his homeland in 1986 by the world’s most famous living instrumentalist after an absence of 61 years...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2006

Elgar Songs, Vol 1

Here’s another fresh slant on Elgar’s masterly Sea Pictures, this time a most persuasive first recording employing a male voice...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2008

Pujol Complete Guitar Duos

Prize-winning guitarist/composer Maximo Diego Pujol (b1957) is a graduate of the Juan José Castro Conservatory and currently teaches at the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 4/2010

Schoenberg/Stravinsky/Strauss Orchestral Works

My colleagues have not been especially enthusiastic about Seiji Ozawa’s other Philips recordings with the Saito Kinen Orchestra. There has...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1996

Brahms/Mozart Clarinet Quintets

If I wanted to buy either of these immortal quintets, my first choice would be a coupling that gave me...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1998

Cerha String Quartets Nos. 1-3; Eight Movements after Hölderlin Fragments

The non-European elements in these quartets are embedded deep in the musical sub-structure, with nothing stylistically incongruous about the results....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1999

Matthews, D Symphonies Nos 2 and 6

It is one thing for Vaughan Williams to have provided a moving meditation on his own hymn tune Down Ampney,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2010

Mozart Piano Concertos

For anyone with absolute pitch a performance such as this may disconcert. Probably the low pitch is historically right: the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1987

Clementi Piano Sonatas, Vol 5

Volume 5 of Howard Shelley’s exemplary cycle brings us sonatas from the late 1790s, a time when Clementi’s London was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2010

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