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Chopin Piano Works

The Chopin sonatas have been recorded so many times that it is difficult for me to think of which performance...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1987

Rheinberger Choral Works

In youth it was natural to think of Rheinberger as a dull old stick and then not to think of...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Although I can find little to fault technically with John Lill's performance of Prokofiev's First Sonata, I'm not entirely convinced...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1991

Furtwängler-Early Studio Recordings-1929-1943

Following BIS’s first disc of Skalkottas’s orchestral music (6/98), this second instalment takes us further into his potent and original...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/1999

Praetorius/Schütz Sacred Choral Works

If Schutz's Christmas Story is your quarry, then this performance by the Taverner Consort, Choir and Players must be considered...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

(The) Romantic Piano Concertos - 20

Ignaz Brull (1846-1907) is remembered today for two things: first his hugely successful opera Das goldene Kreuz, and secondly, for...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1999

Goldberg Chamber Music

Being remembered on the one hand for music you did not write, while at the same time the only piece...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/1999

Tishchenko String Quartets Nos 3 & 5

The follow-up to Olympia’s first volume of Tishchenko quartets (see 7/96) once again shows the rewards and limitations of following...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Dvorák: Orchestral Works

It is good to find this delectable work, long neglected, being effectively brought into the regular canon, with two more...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1990

Zelenka (I) Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV63

I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore was first performed on Good Friday 1736. Stefano Pallavicini’s libretto presents the Old Testament...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2010

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