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Vives Dona Francisquita

It was only a few months ago that I was reviewing a recording of Dona Francisquita, which with three versions...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1995

Schubert Trout Quintet; Trio No 1 in B flat

A generous coupling, achieved, however, at the expense of omitting the longer repeats in both works. The Trout Quintet’s outer...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2004

Bach Organ Works, Vol. 5

This is the part of a projected complete recording of Bach's organ works. The common denominator of the series is...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 9/1994

Bach, CPE Sonatas and Rondos

No one who enjoyed Pletnev's two-disc set of Scarlatti (Virgin Classics, 3/96) will be surprised that he has now turned...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2002

Impromptu

In a market overrun with ‘classical piano’s greatest hits’ compilations, I envision cynical reviewers tossing their unopened copies of ‘Impromptu’...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2005

Mozart Piano Concertos 22 & 25

Recordings of live Salzburg Festival performances by Edwin Fischer are something of a rarity, which is why time and care...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997

Boyce Ode for St Cecilia's Day

William Boyce was a prolific composer of odes. He wrote more than 50, most of them for the court, when...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Mozart Piano Trios, Vol 2

Circumscribed Mozart this is not. The Kungsbacka Piano Trio avoid the dispassionate literalism of so-called authenticity. They are musicians of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2009

Mozart Early String Quartets

In The Mozart Companion (Faber: 1956), Hans Keller dismisses the early string quartets as ''on the whole abominable''. ''Why play...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1991

Tchaikovsky Mazeppa

Call it cynicism or simply a composer's desire to reach a wider public at a time before film scores brought...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

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