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Macdowell: Piano Works

Having declared with cautious confidence in my review of James Tocco's recital, for Kingdom/Conifer, last year that ''MacDowell probably was...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1990

Purcell: Songs and Harpsichord Suites

The chief fault with this record is that in the songs the harpsichord is so unfavourably balanced—and in the 1960s...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Weill Symphony No 2; Violin Concerto; Mahagonny Suite

For works that are so seldom performed in the concert-hall, Weill’s Second Symphony and his Violin Concerto have both notched...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1998

Bach; Reger Violin Works

The winner of the 1999 Paganini Competition at the age of 16, Sayaka Shoji isn’t merely a superb technician, she’s...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 7/2011

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 13 & 24

Howard Shelley's series of Mozart concerto performances is of a consistently high standard. Reviewing earlier issues, I have written of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1995

Parry Orchestral Works

Nimbus may just have stolen a march over Chandos, with their world premiere recording of Parry's First Symphony, but there...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 7/1992

Handel Brockes-passion

Barthold Hinrich Brockes was a prolific poet of the early-German Enlightenment. From a literary standpoint Brockes's most important and, indeed,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, 'Moonlight', 'Pathétique' & 'Waldstein'

Much as I admire Steven Osborne (he was even able to persuade me of the merits of Britten’s Piano Concerto),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2010

Dvorák Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra

‘Complete Works’ is the bold claim on this disc, called into question by its omission of the youthful Cello Concerto....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2004

Schumann Piano Quartet Op.47; Piano Quintet Op.44

Here’s a useful coupling of Schumann’s two works for strings with piano from 1842, his magnificent “year of chamber music”,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 8/2009

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