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Piano 'War Horses'

Meridian offer a photo but no biographical information on Roger Press; and their recording set-up does him no favours either—a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Chopin Nocturnes, Mazurkas & Waltzes

This two-disc set of Chopin’s complete Nocturnes is a reissue of recordings made in 1968-69, coupled with a selection of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2001

Beethoven/Weber Chamber Works

Beethoven's Septet has been played and recorded in various ways—as an eighteenth-century serenade, as an early nineteenth-century symphony writ small,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994

Liszt Complete Années de Pèlerinage

On this generously filled two-CD set, Louis Lortie gives us Liszt’s complete Années de pèlerinage, repeating Book 2 (Italie), which...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2011

Barber Orchestral Works

Deals don’t come much more tempting than this mid-price offering from BMG France, even in the absence of English notes,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2005

Prokofiev Orchestral & Chamber Works

''Containing no less [sic] than three world premiere recordings'' (I think Conifer mean ''no fewer'') runs the publicity but two...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1991

Claudio Abbado - (The) Silence that follows music - A Portrait

As Promgoers and Edinburgh Festival patrons will attest, Claudio Abbado takes nothing for granted these days, the unforced lucidity of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2003

Lutoslawski Chamber Works

When the Lutoslawski String Quartet last came my way I commented rather tetchily on its ''uncharacteristically diffuse and protracted meanderings''....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 and 1

By calling Paavo Järvi’s Beethoven Fifth a front-runner, I intend the reference more as a reflection of fast pacing, brilliant...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2009

Adam (La) Filleule des Fées

La filleule des fées was composed by Adam – with a little help from Alfred de Saint­Julien – in 1849....

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

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