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20th Century Piano Works

This record should have been called ''Six Pianists in Search of a Repertoire''. Having exhausted the classics of six-piano music...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 4

Only an extended essay could do justice to the fourth and final volume of Paul Lewis’s Beethoven sonata cycle. But...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008

Purcell O God, the King of Glory Anthems

It takes an enterprising record company to release a new Purcell disc – current economic and cultural climates aside –...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Byrd Sacred Choral Works

Byrd's Masses for four and five voices form the bedrock of the English choral tradition: every cathedral or college chorister...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1990

Puccini Gianni Schicchi

One of the world’s best jokes immortalised in a masterpiece of a score: it doesn’t often fail and indeed is...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2004

Szymanowski (The) Complete Mazurkas

A more potent or original voice than Szymanowski’s is hard to imagine. True, there are key influences to be observed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

This was always an outstanding performance, but originally the EMI analogue sound seemed rather plushy, bringing at times a veneer...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1988

Sacred Bridges

Lately, TV arts/documentary schedules have teemed with films on Islam, mostly over-simplifying history to the point of distortion and suggesting...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2006

Pavarotti in Central Park

Apart from June 26th, 1993 there is another date for which the listener will fidget, so here it is now:...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Glazunov: Orchestral and Ballet Works

I don't recall a previous complete recording of Les ruses d'amour being issued before in the UK: the analogue recording...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988

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