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Schumann Miscellaneous Works

It's useful to have inexpensive access to Schumann's late, touching Requiem fur Mignon, albeit in a rather thin, excessively directional...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Bach/Feinberg Piano Trancriptions 4

Once they were in fashion, then they were frowned upon. Artur Schnabel refused to play Bach ‘transcriptions or arrangements of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2004

Wagner Parsifal

The more one hears this work, the more one wonders at Wagner's glorious command of his motives, counterpoint and harmony....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985

Mozart Late Symphonies

Bernstein's performances of Mozart's last six symphonies were issued separately but are now collected on three LPs, cassettes or CDs....

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Mariotte Salomé

Here’s a Class A curiosity. Antoine Mariotte (1875-1944) set the original French text of Oscar Wilde’s play before Richard Strauss...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2007

Mahler Songs of Youth

The Lieder und Gesange, published in 1892, are ''aus der Jugendzeit'': ''Songs and airs from the time of youth''. Im...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 2/1984

Quartetto con forza

Swedish post-war music has made little international headway but this is no fault of Phono Suecia, who have assiduously promoted...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2010

Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 etc

This is a tremendously exciting account of the Third Symphony, crackling with supercharged energy and blazing with colour. If the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1997

Poulenc Organ Concerto; Concert champêtre; Suite française

Elisabeth Chojnacka gets off to a head start against most others who have recorded the Concert champetre by using the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1999

Kissin - Recital Program Vol 11

This is perhaps not as wonderful a solo disc as Kissin’s previous one of the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, Franck’s Prelude,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

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