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Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music

Classic fM has introduced the ‘layman’ to a great deal of accessible art music, often in the form of detached...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1999

Prokofiev & Scriabin: Piano Works

Apart from the Scriabin Deux Poemes, none of these pieces is otherwise available on CD, though they are, of course,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1987

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Like Rattle in his recent Berlin Philharmonic account (EMI, 7/08), Paavo Järvi looks to Ravel’s refinement for his picture gallery....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2008

Verdi (Un) ballo in maschera

House-habitués know this as the Bastianini Ballo. It marked the baritone’s debut at the Royal Opera House, to which he...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2008

Alwyn Chamber Music, Volume 2

Undoubtedly the finest work here is the Oboe Sonata, a splendid piece, pastoral in feeling, which should be in every...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1994

Miscellaneous Orchestral Works

Who or what is or are Puccini's Crisantemi, you may say. Having the advantage of the disc's booklet in front...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Granados Piano Works

These are as persuasive performances of Granados's Spanish Dances as I have ever heard from a non-Spanish pianist. Angela Hewitt's...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1994

Great Singers, Vol.2

If critics were kings.... Well, what a world it would be. ''Listen to this; don't dare to buy that'': the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

We Got It Good...And That Ain't Bad - An Ellington Songbook

Andre Previn slips so naturally from jazz to classical, from conducting to pianism and composing, that we begin to wonder...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2000

Wagner Operatic Scenes

I have little to add regarding these performances to what I wrote only two months ago, except to reinforce my...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1984

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