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Korngold Piano Sonatas 1-3

It hardly needs repeating that Erich Korngold was one of the most remarkable of all musical child prodigies. Yet it...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Ravel Complete Piano Works

With this two-CD Ravel cycle, Michelangelo Carbonara, a 31-year-old Italian pianist, enters a fiercely competitive field. Tharaud, Bavouzet and Thibaudet...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011

Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos

‘Museum opera’, the insult trendy producers commonly fling at any dramatically comprehensible staging, is oddly appropriate here, because this is...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2002

Bach - Great Organ Works

This disc is the 15th and final volume in Ricercar’s Bach series. It consists of works attributed to Bach, but...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/1999

Liszt Via crucis; Satie/Cage Socrate

The way John Cage arranged Erik Satie’s Socrate for two pianos is simple and quite ingenious. He dovetails Satie’s original...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2006

Donizetti La Favorite

By coincidence, here is another French opera by an Italian – Verdi’s Jerusalem is reviewed on page 126 – and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000

Lachner Symphony No 8; Ball-Suite

Paul Robinson and the Kosice State Philharmonic are loyal supporters of Lachner, now following their record of his Fifth Symphony...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1995

Verdi Macbeth (1847 version)

The Festival at Martina Franca is one of the most scholar-orientated in existence. Last summer it presented Donizetti’s revision, in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1998

Bruch Odysseus

During his lifetime Odysseus was one of Bruch’s most frequently performed and highly regarded works: the influential English critic J....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999

Benda, G A/Erlebach/Gessel Cantatas

This disc brings together four sacred cantatas by composers who only infrequently feature in these pages. Best known of them...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1999

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