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Prokofiev: Piano Works

This Ondine recording is a fraction dry and close, and it sounds at its best at a touch below normal...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

(The) Power of Love

For all his professional life‚ Richard Bonynge has been a huge enthusiast for out­of­the­way and/or neglected music of the 19th...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Shostakovich Symphony No.7

It became known during the winter of 1941–2 that Shostakovich was writing a symphony in tribute to those who were...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

The Art of the Bawdy Song

Hyping up the bawdy as 'art' to draw attention to the naughtiness of our forebears is a clever selling ploy:...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/1993

Dohnányi Piano Concertos

The sixth disc in Hyperion's admirable if uneven series, ''The Romantic Piano Concerto'' (the choice of works is enterprising, the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1994

Joanna Macgregor -Outside in Pianist

‘Around and about Joanna MacGregor’ would have been an equally suitable title for this disc. Questions inevitably arise as to...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/1999

Haydn Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida; Choral Works

A special attraction for Haydn lovers here is the first-ever recording of the unfinished ode Mare Clausum, commissioned in 1794...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1996

Brahms Piano Concerto No 2; Schumann Piano Concerto

Van Cliburn’s triumph at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 and his unprecedented ticker-tape welcome home was a story...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2011

Chopin/Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas

Here are two cello sonatas written by composers who were among the leading pianists of their day; small wonder then...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1994

Kapell ReDiscovered

Kapell was killed in a plane crash just south of San Francisco in October 1953 – the flight that was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2008

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