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Mozart Piano Variations

Despite its title of ''Variations for Piano, Volume 1'', Michel Dalberto begins this Mozart recital with a chunky account of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992

Haydn: Violin Concertos

These are vivid and fresh performances that bring these still relatively unfamiliar concertos written around 1770 into sharp focus. The...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989

English Music for Strings

Contrasted as the four composers are, this is all amiable, well-crafted music. That is especially true of Norman Del Mar’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2010

Martinu Orchestral Works

Martinu's Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani is at long last gaining ground in the catalogues. This...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1992

The Piano Music Of John Ogdon

Born in 1937, John Ogdon was in his student days a member of the Manchester New Music Group and gave...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1992

Historia Sancti Edmundi

I confess that the subtitle of this CD “From Dramatic Liturgy to Liturgical Drama” made me uneasy. “Right,” I said,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1997

Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Op 57; Piano Trio No 2, Op67

Both these couplings are extremely fine, but taken together they add up to even more than the sum of their...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1997

Verdi Ernani

No wonder Ernani was such a favourite in the 19th century. Everything is in place. The hero keeps his word;...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2010

Rachmaninov Concerto for Piano No 3; Scriabin Etudes

Lang Lang‚ the 19­year­old Chinese pianist now resident in America‚ appears to have already accrued a life­long career‚ so extensive...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Haydn Arianna a Naxos, Lieder & Canzonettas

With a nod to Frauenliebe und -leben, Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Aline Zylberajch here trace a Haydnesque sentimental journey from innocence,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2010

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