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Herzogenberg Piano Works

I am full of admiration for artists and small independent labels with the enterprise and imagination to revive the works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2006

Debussy Piano Works

Jos van Immerseel uses an Erard piano of 1897 which he found to be in perfect condition on first discovering...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1993

Schubert Piano Trio, D929; Notturno

The E flat Trio is immediately handicapped by the slowest, most ponderous reading of the first movement I’ve encountered, and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1998

Preisner - Ten Easy Pieces for Piano

Zbigniew Preisner is well known as a composer of film music, particularly to Krzysztof Kiesyowski's Double Life of Veronique (9/98)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2000

Mozart String Quartets

German Electrola in the 1950s and 1960s were a veritable gold-mine of recorded material that never found its way into...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Skempton (The) Cloths of Heaven

Music for piano and accordion may be the “central nervous system” of his work but recent discs suggest Howard Skempton’s...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 0/2008

Mozart Serenade for 13 wind instruments, K361

A most enjoyable CD, given superbly realistic sound—indeed, this is another case where the presence of the group is positively...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1987

Veracini/Barsanti Sonatas

Bergen Baroque consists of recorder, cello, lute and harpsichord/organ. Veracini and Barsanti wrote rewardingly for the recorder, sometimes making advanced...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1999

Schnittke Concertos & Sonatas

Mark Lubotsky is a longstanding friend of Schnittke’s, and he and the composer’s wife Irina gave the first performance of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos

Klemperer was one of the few great Beethoven conductors—perhaps the only great Beethoven conductor—who consciously determined to record not only...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1990

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