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BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1

Maurizio Pollini is a sovereign interpreter of this concerto – which he has recorded for DG twice before – but...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 01/2012

Mozart Edition, Vol.37

Let's be frank: this performance is, by and large, neither as convincingly sung, conducted nor, in some respects, recorded as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

Travels with my Lute

Recorded in Sweden in 2005, this recital by the Japanese-born lutenist Ryosuke Sakamoto of 25 items ranges wide over the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2011

Rebounds - Evelyn Glennie

The development of instrumental prowess far beyond nineteenth-century limits has been stimulated by the uninhibited efforts of jazz musicians, not...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1993

Panufnik Orchestral Works

Hommage a Chopin is by a couple of decades the earliest work here (in its original form, a series of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1990

Overtures for the Hamburg Opera

This disc claims to explore overtures composed for the Hamburg Opera but the concept proves to be loose: no room...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2005

Schumann Carnaval;Humoreske;Theme and Variations in E flat

First praise here for rescue of the rarely recorded E flat Variations written during dark, late days of breakdown and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1997

Ravel Piano Works, Volume 1

Even dedicated Ravelians will, I suspect, raise their eyebrows in happy anticipation on discovering a new piano work by him,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1995

Bowen Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

York Bowen was just 18 and a composition pupil of Frederick Corder at the Royal Academy of Music when he...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2011

Bach: Motets and Cantatas

This two-CD album is a conjunction of two previous LP releases. The musical content is less piecemeal than might appear...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1986

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