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Russian Piano Works

This is a very distinguished debut recording. Margaret Fingerhut rises to every change of mood in these short pieces. Her...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1986

Music from the Coronation of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II

The 1953 Coronation was musically the best for some time, or probably since Handel's time. The premiere of Walton's Te...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Stainer Crucifixion

This record differs from those under George Guest from St John's College, Cambridge (Argo) and from Peterborough Cathedral under Stanley...

Reviewed in issue 6/1986

Mozart Symphonies Nos 39 & 41

Over 20 years after his first recordings of these symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner appears to have heeded Leopold Mozart’s words:...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2011

Songs by Schubert's Friends and Contemporaries

As Graham Johnson notes, a prime purpose in this appendix to Hyperion’s Schubert Edition is to show that the Lied...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2006

Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti; Copland Quiet City

It’s tempting to encapsulate Bernstein’s opera-in-miniature Trouble in Tahiti as Woody Allen meets Aaron Copland – except that his sensitive...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2007

Piazzolla for Two

The truth is out there, we are told. So, to judge from the continuing wave of issues of Piazzolla’s works,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997

Luzzaschi: Madrigals

Luzzasco Luzzaschi's Madrigali are something of a special case. Originally published in 1601, but probably composed about 20 years earlier,...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1985

Vivaldi Andromeda liberata

Here’s an intriguing mystery. In 2002 French musicologist Olivier Fourés came across the manuscript of this serenata, dated September 18,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2005

Perosi Mosè

Toscanini conducted the first performance in 1901, at a time when Don Lorenzo Perosi, then a few days before his...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

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