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Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven's Symphonies 4 & 8

Cyprien Katsaris has already given us (among others) Liszt's transcriptions of the Eroica (6 43201: CD 8 43201, 10/85), Pastoral...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1987

Liszt Via Crucis

Liszt’s journey around the 14 Stations of the Cross is far from being an uplifting experience and has never had...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2007

Soler Keyboard Sonatas

If the performance of Soler’s Sonatas on the fortepiano is ‘debatable’ (as Lionel Salter rightly claimed), despite the fact that...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/2003

Russian Orthodox Music

This collection includes some intriguing and little-known repertoire, such as two works by the contemporary composers Valery Sariyev and Vladimir...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Britten (4) Sea Interludes; Debussy (La) Mer

The Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal may not be so well known outside Canada as the great Montreal Symphony Orchestra, but...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2008

Bach Sonatas and Partitas

Viktoria Mullova plays a gut-strung Guadagnini (in modern set-up) at low pitch, using a Baroquestyle bow. In terms of tonal...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2009

Nebra Miserere

There are no two ways about it: the latest CD in Al Ayre Español’s Spanish Baroque series for Deutsche Harmonia...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

R.Strauss Tone Poems

It’s over a year since I gave an enthusiastic welcome to an excellent Shostakovich Fifth from these forces (Tring, 9/95)...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

The English Connection

The playing on this CD is excellent and the internal balance is first rate. With the LP I did question...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Handel Theodora

Handel regarded Theodora, with some justification, as his favourite oratorio, though it was poorly received at the time (the story...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1993

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