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Italian Opera Composers' Songs

It would do nobody a service or kindness to try to find grounds for recommending this. Neither in quality of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Spanish Piano Music, Vol 2

The second volume in Martin Jones's nine-CD tribute, 'Spanish Piano Music', could hardly be more enticing or delectable. My initial...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2000

Rossini Petite Messe solennelle

The Petite Messe solennelle is a strangely elusive work. I have long suspected that it needs a certain kind of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2006

Piano Duet Music by Bennett, Bernstein & Grainger

Sound-wise the contrast with this month's other piano-duo disc (reviewed on page 800), from the Labeques (same company, same studio—Abbey...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1988

Arensky Russian Piano Music Series, Vol.5

Heard in quantity, Arensky’s piano works can seem limited and occasionally facile. But heard separately, many of the 38 pieces...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2010

Walton Henry V (after music from the film)

We owe it to the late Christopher Palmer, devotee both of Walton and of film music, that we have this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1998

Beethoven Piano Sonatas 4, 22, 23 & 25

The Appassionata comes up first and the E flat Sonata, Op 7, last in the tracking, presumably because the Appassionata...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/2001

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

The close but contrasted relationship between these two symphonies makes it a most desirable coupling; yet as one surveys the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1991

Rubinstein, A Cello Sonatas

Brahms, who had a high regard for Rubinstein, was said to wish that he took more trouble with composition. It...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2009

Gombert Magnificats 1-4

Peter Phillips is surely right to describe Gombert as the Flemish Renaissance master who least deserves the epithet ‘minor’. Tradition...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2001

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