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Gouvy Piano Music for Four Hands

It seems sad to me that the majority of performers are so myopic that they refuse to admit the possibility...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1993

Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict

The Davis/Baker/Tear recording, made for Philips in 1977, is so deservedly well-known and admired that anybody thinking about changing allegiances...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

William Croft at St Paul's

Modesty in the music of triumph, restraint in that of loss and grief, a decent moderation in all things: Croft's...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Britten Choral Edition, Vol. 2

As in the first volume of this series (Chandos, 4/97) the Finzi Singers meet with competition from The Sixteen, and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Janácek Jenufa

Hot on the heels of Sir Charles Mackerras’s set of Janácek’s orchestral music (5/04) – issued with the threat that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2004

Intermedios del Barroco Hispanico

The belated re-emergence from the mists of the past of the Spanish poet and dramatist Lope Felix de Vega Carpio...

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Gounod Messe solennelle

In his History of Music (1886) W. S. Rockstro assured readers that Gounod was a thoroughly earnest composer, and added...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Polish and Russian Chamber Music

Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes (1954), best known in their original scoring for clarinet and piano, adapt very convincingly to chamber orchestra:...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1991

Medtner/Mussorgsky/Taneyev Piano Works

This is a monumental account of Mussorgsky's Pictures. Still under 30, the Moscow-born Zilberstein is now under contract to DG,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1994

Schubert String Quartets

The Coull Quartet make a particularly valuable contribution to Schubert year in their first auspicious volume of the composer’s works...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1997

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