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Scriabin Piano Works

Compelling and absorbing performances, and proof that Roger Woodward's interpretative powers extend far beyond the confines of the contemporary, avant-garde...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1992

Mozart Piano Concertos, etc

Completed on the day that Mozart became a Freemason, the F major Concerto is a delightful piece and mainly happy...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991

Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale

Shlomo Mintz and his colleagues give a vividly energetic, virtuoso performance, its one slightly questionable aspect, a very slow account...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997

Mozart Arias

As the splendid gallery of photographs in Erato’s booklet reminds us‚ the beautiful Italian soprano has won plaudits as Donna...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Mendelssohn String Quartets Nos 1 & 2.

Saturated in Beethoven, youthfully experimental – these are still two of the finest string quartets written in the nineteenth century....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1998

Britten, Grieg and Szymanowski - Violin Works

One of the leading virtues of EMI's Debut series is its programming policy, where the tried-and-tested rubs shoulders with the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000

Bach Organ Works Vol 10

I am curiously dissatisfied by this latest offering in Nimbus’s Bach series. There is so much to praise that it...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1999

Ivar Andrésen (1896-1940) - II

Andresen, the template for so many Scandinavian basses, was principal at the Berlin State Opera and Bayreuth from 1927 to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997

Launis Aslak Hetta

Here’s an interesting discovery, and then some. After 23 years’ teaching singing and theory in Helsinki, with a sideline as...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2005

Feldman Neither

The sparse, allusive texts of Samuel Beckett have often attracted the attention of composers, including the more-jazz-than-not of Michael Mantler’s,...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 10/1998

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