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Leoncavallo Pagliacci (in English)

“Hello … Hello” is the neat rendition of “Si puo … si puo”, presumably unthinkable in the days which produced...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Haydn Complete String Quartets

The wonderful and variegated world of Haydn’s string quartets has long been daily sustenance for connoisseurs of musical classicism, and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2001

Verdi (La) Traviata

Nothing is perfect, always some stammer in the divine speech: we know that. But such blemishes as occur in the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2009

Bax Piano Works, Vol. 2

Excellent recording of piano tone by Chandos on this disc, the second in Eric Parkin's magister ial survey of Bax's...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Fibich Anthology of Czech Piano Music, Volume 5

Fibich composed 376 short piano pieces under the title Nalady, Dojny a Upominky, or Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences (of which...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994

Tye Sacred Choral Works

After rather a surfeit of Tallis, how refreshing to rediscover the individuality of Tye's genius! What a marvellous composer, and...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 1/1991

21st Century Piano Icons

Arvo Part’s eloquently simple and extraordinarily touching Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinushka (‘Variations for the healing of Arinushka’) sets the...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/2000

Vaughan Williams Works for Violin and Piano

Here’s another strong performance of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata (1954) to set beside those fine versions listed above which have...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1997

Weber Chamber Works

There are two rarities here. One is a graceful little 32-bar waltz melody, lasting just over a minute, which Weber...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2003

Brahms Piano Works

I have already admired Idil Biret's Brahms series in earlier reviews, and this disc also earns praise. The music here...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1994

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