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Liszt: Piano Works

The booklet with this CD states that Tzimon Barto ''has been described as a leading exponent of a new romanticism...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1989

Hovhaness Mysterious Mountains

It is easy to dismiss the music of Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000). For starters, he was suspiciously prolific, with opus numbers...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2003

Bella Domna

Briefly, Hyperion have done it again. With the courage and imagination that we are almost beginning to expect from them,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1988

Works for oboe and piano

It seems astonishing that a substantial piece of chamber music by a composer of the prominence of Herbert Howells should...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1986

Field Piano Concertos

It must surely delight John Field, in Elysian Fields, to know that it's a fellow Dubliner who now so gallantly...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1994

Dussek; Hummel; Onslow Piano Quintets

Following my warm welcome to Onslow’s Piano Quintet in the July issue, here is another by him, with two others,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2007

Angels Composition and Synthesised Sound

At a time when classical recording companies have started to market Gregorian chant and the sequentia of Hildegard of Bingen...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 9/1997

Lutoslawski; Nielsen; Prokofiev Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Richard Stoltzman’s Lutos¹awski‚ Nielsen and Prokofiev compilation is a fine achievement. He brings to the Nielsen Concerto both virtuosity and...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Purcell Harpsichord Suites

I once asked Holmboe why the four works Epitaph (1954), Monolith (1960), Epilog (1961-2) and Tempo variabile (1971-2), with their...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Stravinsky (The) Firebird; Petrushka; (The) Rite of the Spring

The unusual thing about this piano duet recording of Stravinsky is that Philip Moore has arranged the last three dances...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2007

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