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Liszt Various Piano Works

What’s with this goth-outfitted pianist sporting unruly hair, seated at a concert grand in the forest, with a swan to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2011

Gál String Quartets Nos 1 and 4; Mozart Variations

When I wrote about Leon McCawley’s superb set of Hans Gál’s piano music (11/05) I remarked that the four Gál...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2007

Monteverdi Balli and Dramatic Madrigals

The four works on this disc come from Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals—his Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (''Warlike and Amorous...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1992

Orchestral works by Holst and Warlock

Holst placed his Suite de ballet firmly among his self-styled ''Early Horrors'', and Imogen Holst duly flinched at ''the banality...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985

Berlioz Lélio, ou Le Retour à la vie

Lélio, Berlioz’s dramatic sequel to the Symphonie fantastique, is never going to command wide popularity, but it is well worth...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2007

Sor Complete Guitar Duets, Volume 2

By the time Sor wrote his first guitar duet he was 50 years old and had made Paris his final...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1997

Elegy

Diana Yukawa is a 15-year-old Anglo-Japanese violinist who plays charmingly and has been well trained (by Rodney Friend). Her father...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Delius Orchestral & Vocal Works

It was Christopher Palmer who produced ''The Fenby Legacy'' (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP9008/9, 10/81), a recording of works with which Eric Fenby...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Pärt Chamber Works

Fratres comes bounding in on a breathless, arpeggiated violin crescendo that stops suddenly in mid-air, revealing—in its immediate aftermath, and...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Dvorák Chamber Works, Vol.11

These two works are not paired on any currently available record of Dvorak's chamber music, and they go well together....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1994

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