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Bach Orchestral Suites and Harpsichord Concerto

This agreeable programme above all celebrates the capricious musicianship of Ketil Haugsand‚ a harpsichordist of outstanding natural ability whose largely...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Paderewski Piano Sonata; Variations and Fugues

Jonathan Plowright shines a powerful light on Paderewski. Gone is the purveyor of salon trifles and charmers (his Minuet in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007

A. Clementi Madrigale

This release spans 43 years of Clementi’s output, although 1956’s Studi, its asperities influenced but not dictated by Darmstadt serialism,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999

Schumann; Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

The first of these two discs celebrates the 50th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim’s début recital in Buenos Aires and is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2003

Dowland In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Only ECM, matchmakers supreme, could have pulled this one off. Here is John Dowland, no longer semper dolens, but with...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1999

Finzi Dies Natalis

In liturgical terms, we have seen Finzi’s music (as represented here by Dies natalis) advance in our times from the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008

Converse (The) Mystic Trumpeter

Frederick Converse (1871­1940)‚ a pupil of George Chadwick and Joseph Rheinberger‚ was the first American to have an opera produced...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Haydn's English Friends

Apart from the odd baryton trio, there cannot, one supposes, be many of Haydn’s works which have not yet been...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2001

Koussevitzky conducts Tchaikovsky

There have been comparatively few Koussevitzky reissues in the 40-odd years since the conductor retired, but in recent times Pearl...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Andrea Bocelli - Opera Arias

Readers may have been intrigued, as I have, by placards in the London Underground and elsewhere advertising a gallery of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1998

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