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Albéniz Iberia, Bks 1-4; Suite españolas Nos 1 & 2

There are few more technically or idiomatically teasing pages in all romantic keyboard literature than Albeniz’s Iberia, a sumptuous tapestry...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1999

Liebermann Orchestral Works

Rolf Liebermann asked ‘why should it not bepermissible to arrange, in the form of the concerto grosso, a work that...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 6/2003

Mar Mediterranean Love Songs of the Thirteenth Century

An anthology of magnificent songs from various Mediterranean traditions, with a strong Arab influence on performance style. Though in such...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Beethoven (The) Complete Music for Piano Trio, Vol 4

This completes the Florestan Trio’s Beethoven series. I’ve been impressed throughout by their thoughtfulness, the way each passage is presented...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2004

Josquin Motets

Josquin fans must be wondering why their luck has so suddenly turned. It is not just that new and good...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1987

R. Strauss and Wolf Lieder

Even today when every month seems to bring us another Lieder singer of accomplishment, this is something special. Bonney, whose...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990

Grieg Orchestral works Vol 1

An overture, concerto and symphony make for either a selective or ideal concert hall sequence; such are the advantages of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003

Warlock: Songs

Astonishingly and deplorably enough these are the only songs by Warlock in the current CD catalogue; this account of The...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1987

Scott String Quartets 1, 2 & 4

Cyril Scott is best-known for his piano piece Lotus Land, and it might be thought that the First and Second...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2004

Bruckner Symphony No 7

The Vienna Symphony is that city’s ‘house’ orchestra, a famously proficient maid-of-all-works, utterly distinct in tone and temper from the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2006

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