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Great European Organs, No.46

The focus of attention here is very much the instrument itself. And what an organ! The older brother (by ten...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1998

Handel Violin Sonatas

Hiro Kurosaki brings a powerful technique and a good sense of musical character to Handel’s violin sonatas. In the first...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/2003

Renata Scotto The French Album 2

Scotto has never been content with just touting a few roles round from centre to centre. She has responded to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Schumann Lieder

Price's lengthening list of Lieder recordings has already included a much-admired version of Frauenliebe for Classics for Pleasure (9/73—nla). Twenty...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

Haydn String Quartets, Op.64

My immediate reaction, on noticing that Hungaroton had decided to reissue the Tatrai Quartet's 1964-5 mono recording of Haydn's six...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1987

Igor Lovchinsky - Debut Recordings

Lovchinsky, Russian-born (1984) and living in the States since 1994, proves in this debut recording to be the real deal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2009

Schobert Sonatas, Op. 16

Schobert, like the King of the Elephants, whom Babar succeeded, died from eating poisoned mushrooms. He was born, perhaps in...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1997

Puccini Manon Lescaut

As I predicted in my review of the LP version of this digital remastering, CD in this instance loses out....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1986

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5

Playing these two versions of the First Concerto's opening movement one after the other is a telling exercise in comparative...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2006

Play

Just about the only common factors in these pieces are an immediately engaging surface appearance and Joanna MacGregor’s personal enthusiasm...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

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