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Mozart Portraits Bartoli

For her second disc of Mozart arias (the first was reviewed in December 1991), Cecilia Bartoli tries on the costumes...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Morton Feldman Works for Piano 2

The major event here is the recording of Five Pianos, which was premiered in Berlin in 1972 with Cage, Cardew,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1995

Dvorák/Tchaikovsky Works for Cello & Orchestra

Truls Mork, born in Bergen in 1961, was the first Scandinavian musician to be a finalist and prize-winner in the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1994

Boulez conducts Webern, Volume 2

With the exception of the Bach and Schubert arrangements this is all relatively early, pre-serial Webern, yet Boulez devotes as...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Scriabin Piano Works

Writing in prose as delirious as his playing, Yevgeny Sudbin speaks in his accompanying nine-page essay of the incomprehension that...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007

Beethoven String Quartets Nos 10 & 11

“Op 74 is an underrated masterpiece of deep consummate beauty of thought and execution.” Robert Simpson’s words, taken further by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2009

Handel Delirio amoroso

Delirio amoroso, the cantata of this CD's title, and Languia di bocca lusinghiera are the only two of the four...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Buxtehude Organ Works

Two differing opinions of Buxtehude's position in musical history are sometimes voiced. The first that had it not been for...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1989

Verdi Simon Boccanegra

It's a good year for Simon Boccanegra. First Glydebourne, in Sussex and at the Proms, then a CD release of...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1986

Franck/Messiaen/Saint-Saëns Violin & Piano Works

The biggest work here is Franck's Sonata, which was written—like the Saint-Saens, which preceded it by a year—in the mid-1880s....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1993

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