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Ligeti Complete Piano Works

BIS has come up with the most comprehensive collection of Ligeti’s music for piano yet recorded. As well as a...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2006

Dowland Lute Music, Vol 1

This is the first volume in veteran lutenist Nigel North’s traversal for Naxos of the complete works for solo lute...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2006

Respighi Orchestral Works

Respighi set great store by the Concerto gregoriano and was distressed by its failure with critics and public. It is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1994

Smetana String Quartets 1 & 2

This is the third pairing of Smetana's two string quartets to have appeared recently, and the Medici now find themselves...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1988

Knowing the Score

This brilliant lecture filmed at Cornell University has a faint aura of material for a distance-learning course, but Malcolm Bilson...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2006

Mortelmans Homeric Symphony

This fascinating CD introduces us to the orchestral music of Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868-1952), one of few relatively important Flemish composers...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2009

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.40

Volume 40 of Leslie Howard’s progress through the whole of Liszt’s piano music crosses some agreeable foothills, without scaling any...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

Operetta Arias - Thomas Hampson

Thomas Hampson’s elegant baritone is one of the glories of the day, and he brings seemingly effortless power and grace...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Howells Lambert's & Howells' Clavichord

Clavichord music played on the piano? Howells published these pieces as ''for clavichord or piano'', as it happens, but I...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1994

Barber/Ives String Quartets

Excellent to have a new recording of these Ives classics from a major ensemble. The First Quartet (1896) is a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1993

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