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Prokofiev & Bartók Piano Concertos

Martha Argerich’s return to the studios in two concertos she has not previously recorded is an uplifting moment. As always...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1998

Rameau Dardanus

It seems extraordinary that even though Rameau has at last been recognised (or should that be re-recognised?) as one of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2000

Martinu Complete Piano Works, Vol 2

In his classic biography of Martinu (Allen Wingate: 1962), Milos Šafránek states that in “the large and varied assortment of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2007

Mozart: Sonatas for Keyboard and Flute

During his visit to London in 1764-5 Mozart wrote, with a little paternal assistance, a set of six pieces in...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1990

Shostakovich (The) Nose

It has been a long wait for a recording of the young Shostakovich’s grotesque morality-opera that would rival Rozhdestvensky’s, made...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2009

20th Century Portraits: Isang Yun

Begun in 1975, six years after the composer’s release from two years’ imprisonment in South Korea, which followed his abduction...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2004

Stravinsky Orpheus; Danses concertantes

As recorded ‘blueprints’ of these neo-classical ballet scores, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s conductorless Stravinsky is more accomplished than the composer’s...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1999

Works for Violin and Piano

It is astonishing to find that Gil Shaham, still in his teens, was only 15 when he recorded this formidable...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1990

Herbert - Orchestral Music, Vol. 3

Victor Herbert’s output was large but uneven. The Auditorium Festival March that opens this collection is one work I imagine...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/2000

Richard Strauss: Lieder

The refulgence of Jessye Norman's tone and ehr well-known conviction singing make her an almost ideal interpreter of such songs...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1986

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