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Ireland Piano Works

To bring out a collection of John Ireland’s piano music on a budget-priced label shows welcome enterprise on CfP’s part....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1996

20th-century music from the British Isles for clarinet& piano

Not just a collection of clarinet works, but a well-devised retrospective of British music over three decades. Bennett’s virtuoso, theatrical...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 9/1998

Carter In Sleep, in Thunder/Triple Duo

This splendid record celebrates the remarkable rapport between a great American composer and two outstanding British contemporary music groups. In...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1986

Escher: Chamber and Instrumental Works

When we hear so little of the 'major' Dutch composers of this century such as Pijper and Vermeulen, it is...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Sessions Complete Works for Solo Piano

Although all three Sessions works have been recorded more than once in the USA, this new release brings them neatly...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1992

Baroque Opera Arias

For some years Carolyn Watkinson has been collecting good notices for her performances in baroque opera, often in castrato roles,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1989

Mozart Piano Quartets, K478 & K493

It is appropriate that Malcolm Bilson, as a kind of by-product of his Mozart piano concerto recordings, should have made...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1989

Scriabin Preludes, Op 11; Shostakovich Preludes, Op 34

Complementing his early and outstanding Collins disc of Scriabin’s Mazurkas (6/94) Artur Pizarro now gives us the 24 Preludes, Op....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997

Onslow Sonatas for Piano Four-Hands

Of all the music of Georges Onslow (1784-1853) the two sonatas for piano duet are most worthy of revival. The...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1999

Toch String Quartets Nos. 11 and 13

Toch wrote 13 string quartets in all (though he had seemingly begun to sketch a 14th at the time of...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

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