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Satie Piano Works

I began listening to this collection somewhat irritably, but this soon gave way to admiration and a fascinated search through...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Vol 2

This is the kind of repertoire in which Jane Parker-Smith excels; big, gutsy, colourful, occasionally passionate, occasionally frothy, bristling with...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2007

Guerrero Hispalensis

Guerrero’s discography receives a significant boost with these discs, and the promise of more to come. The Spanish ensemble Musica...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2006

Jarre, M Film Soundtracks

Maurice Jarre composed his first film score in 1952 (Hôtel des Invalides). But while it was in France that he...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

Prokofiev Music for Children

Prokofiev's second childhood: Jose Serebrier (ASV, 7/91) recently took a similar trip down this particular memory lane, but the images...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991

Michael Finnissy Red Earth

The ‘red earth’ in question is that of the Australian desert landscape, seen from the air; but it is also...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1997

Violin Showpieces

Impressive Heifetz-cloning by a notable Heifetz pupil. In fact, play Friedman's recordings of the Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Ravel and Chausson items...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Matthias, J Cortical Songs

Some background first. The brain behind Nonclassical is composer Gabriel Prokofiev and his label is “dedicated to releasing music that...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2009

Massenet Werther

It is the old, modern story: a good musical performance and bad stage production. The trouble is that this is...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2011

Reger Psalm 100, Op 106; Variations on a Theme of Mozart

Among collections that are otherwise well­stocked there are probably several in which Max Reger is represented by a single disc...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

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