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Grieg Piano Works

Leif Ove Andsnes was 22 last year when he made the recording of Grieg's Sonata—exactly the composer's age when he...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1993

Hanson Symphony No 2

This release coincides with the reissue of ‘Hanson Conducts Hanson’, a four-CD set on the old Mercury label. Hanson was...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2005

Janacek Piano Works

Given the present popularity of Janacek's piano music, especially of the Overgrown path pieces, it is odd that the recording...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1987

Vladimir Ashkenazy Piano Recital - 1963

Ashkenazy was 26 when this recital took place. The previous year he had shared first prize with John Ogdon at...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1994

Lourié Chamber and Vocal Works

The accompanying notes describe Arthur Lourie (1892-1966) as one of the 'great unknowns' of twentieth-century music. Even if he were...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1994

Brahms Serenade No.1

Brahms's two orchestral serenades of around 1857-9 belong to his period at the princely court of Detmold and No. 1...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Haydn "London" Symphonies, etc

Harnoncourt's slowly evolving set of the ''London'' symphonies is completed by Nos. 96-99, each of which receives a characteristically challenging...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1994

Works for Trumpet & Cornet

There are two very striking works included here. I am not always impressed with Hindemith's sometimes angular, dry lyricism, but...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Revueltas The String Quartets

Since the fatuously irrelevant booklet-note here says not a single word about the music played, or about the composer (born...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994

Gluck Le Cinesi

Le cinesi (''The Chinese ladies'') is one of numerous pieces of the kind—generally called azione teatrale or something similar—composed during...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1987

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