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Blumenfeld Piano Etudes

Blumenfeld's Etude for the left hand is the only one of his 18 studies to remain in the repertoire, occasionally...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1995

Finnissy Mars and Venus

This is the fourth CD of Michael Finnissy’s music to be released on NMC and the first to be devoted...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Brahms Piano Works

The young Swedish pianist Francisca Skoogh makes a strong impression in Brahms. Her playing is big-boned, grandly sculptured, with taut...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/2002

Brahms (The) Piano Quartets

Of all Brahms’s chamber music, I’ve always felt his finest works were the quintets and sextets. In the smaller line-ups...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 1/2007

Cage Solo for Cello

This unnecessarily arid survey of John Cage and the cello contains only one work specifically designed for the instrument, the...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2007

Splendour of Spain, Vol.1 - Christopher Columbus

At last. Ever since the dawn of the CD era many of us having been waiting for reissues of records...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1992

Tartini Violin Concertos, Vol 4

I believe this series of Tartini’s violin concertos by L’Arte dell’Arco is the first comprehensive survey of the repertory on...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1999

Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3; Carnaval des animaux

Although recorded in EMI's hi-fi orientated Studio Two system which usually produced a bright treble response, the Fremaux version of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1989

Rachmaninov Corelli Variations; Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39

Fifteen years have elapsed since Decca gave us Ashkenazy's much-praised original LP coupling of the Corelli Variations and second set...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Berkeley, L Symphony No 4; Berkeley, M Cello Concerto

This third instalment of the Chandos Berkeley Edition, celebrating the centenary of Lennox Berkeley and the contrasting achievements of his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

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