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Verdi Simon Boccanegra

When this set was new, Andrew Porter, in one of his last assignments for this magazine, wrote a long and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1987

Women at the Piano, Vol 3

Having found myself enveloped in a recent BBC programme devoted to Naxos’s “Women at the Piano” by two ardent but...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2007

Offenbach Romantique

Long before he scored his big success as a composer of operettas with Orphée aux enfers, Offenbach was renowned as...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2007

Chopin Etudes & Ballades

The pianist’s name is new to me: a pupil of Georges Pludermacher and François-Frédéric Guy, the 25-year-old won first prize...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008

Bruhns Complete Organ Works

In the notes which accompany this beautifully packaged disc we are reminded of Bruhns' influence over the works of JS...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2002

Richter - The Early Visits (1961-67)

Chopin and Debussy were, along with Wagner, the composers Richter always said meant the most to him. This remarkable compilation,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/1999

Serge Koussevitzky conducts Music from Russia

This sequence of genial dance pieces offers some attractive music, but unfolds over a monotonous texture that relies too heavily...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 9/1999

Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 6, 8 and 10

Though issued as Volume XIX of Symposium’s ‘The Great Violinists’ series, this CD is equally interesting as a record of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2004

Handel Aminta e Fillide - Italian Cantatas Vol 4

The fourth instalment of La Risonanza’s survey of Handel’s youthful Italian cantatas is devoted to two works probably composed for...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2008

Schubert Lieder

Nancy Argenta gives so much of her time and energy to earlier and later music that we are only seldom...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1991

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