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Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

Still they come. The Rachmaninov Concertos notably Nos. 2 and 3, gain rather than decrease in popularity, and Lilya Zilberstein's...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995

Meyerbeer Dinorah

The day after its premiere at the Opera-Comique, Meyerbeer wrote to his wife to say that everybody, including the Emperor...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Bach (6) Motets

Alongside the familiar six motets, this CD includes Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, a composition formerly attributed...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 6/2011

Bach Transcriptions

Even when confronted with a repertoire full of imposing and magisterial music, conductors still apparently hear non-orchestral repertoire in orchestral...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2004

Portrait of Ruth Crawford Seeger

This is an excellently conceived portrait of a remarkable American pioneer. Crawford wrote most of her music in Chicago in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1997

Feldman String Quartet

Morton Feldman has made it to Naxos American Classics! But not with some of his more accessible pieces such as...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2006

Bach Harpsichord Concertos, Vol 4

For the performances here I have little but praise. Woolley’s boldly energetic first movement of the Vivaldian D minor Concerto,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1999

Beethoven Cello Sonatas

The obvious point of comparison here is the live recording of the same repertoire that Fournier made with Kempff some...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Melpomen - Ancient Greek Music for an Athenian Symposium

No, this is not the first ‘classical record’! As discs by Gregorio Paniagua, Petros Tabouris and Anne Bélis show, others...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 4/2006

The Romantic Lied

Price and Johnson have done it again. He has chosen a programme for her that exactly suits her talents and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995

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