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Arriaga Vocal Works

Dazzlingly precocious, dead before his 20th birthday, Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806‑26) was, almost inevitably, dubbed ‘the Spanish Mozart’ –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2006

Say Black Earth

In many ways, the 34-year-old Turkish-born pianist Fazil Say is a throwback to an earlier pianistic age – not in...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 3/2004

Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante

Fine recordings of Prokofiev’s problematic Symphony-Concerto (misleadingly titled Sinfonia concertante by Channel Classics) continue to appear. This latest is in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2009

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

There are marvellous things here, but also, I find, troughs of ordinariness which are difficult to understand. From the opening...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Brahms/Klemperer/Ravel/Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

Stokowski in his ninety-third year—fiery, impulsive, provocative and above all, youthful. Listen to the coda of Brahms's first movement and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Haydn Piano Sonatas

For every new record of Haydn's piano music I suppose there must be half-a-dozen of Mozart's, at least. Alone among...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1986

Bach Anna Magdalena Notenbuch

An intimate peep into the domestic life of the Bach family is what makes Anna Magdalena's Notebook such a treasured...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1994

Farewell to Bohème

Aristide Bruant wrote most of his songs for himself. As can be heard on many early discs, he declaimed them...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/2003

Bach Arias from Cantatas

Bach composed only one complete cantata for solo tenor: No 55. Taking the parable of the tribute-money as a starting-point...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2000

Poulenc Piano Concerto. Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 has a more varied character than is sometimes assumed, and it is a strength of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1983

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