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Sibelius Piano Music, Volume 2

The bulk of Sibelius’s piano output, like his works for violin or cello with piano, consists of charming (or not...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2001

Schubert Piano Sonata No 21

With ‘The Late Schubert’ Russian pianist Oleg Marshev makes a notable departure from his previous recorded repertoire. But with the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2006

Puccini/Bellini Arias

Manon's ''In quelle trine morbide'' opens the recital, and she has no sooner sung the first word than, prepared (momentarily)...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Elgar/Walton Violin Sonatas

Choice between this CD transfer of Lorraine McAslan's performance of Elgar's sonata and that of the Nigel Kennedy interpretation on...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Alain Piano Works

The death of Jehan Alain at the age of 29, killed in the early days of the Second World War,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1992

(The) Kite Runner

This controversial new film, directed by Marc Forster, who gave us the touching Finding Neverland, is based on the recent...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 2/2008

Denyce Graves - Lost Days

This seems to me an unusually successful example of a crossover CD, with Denyce Graves applying the sultry mezzo of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2003

Debuusy: Piano works

The name of Theodore Paraskivesco is new to me. A Romanian, born in 1940, he was a pupil of Yvonne...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1988

Mazzoni Aminta, il re pastore

Antonio Mazzoni was admired in his day for his “fire and fancy” but quickly fell into oblivion after his death...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2007

Puccini Turandot

When Karajan's DG Vienna recording of Turandot appeared on CD, I immediately wondered how this much older Decca set would...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985

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