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Mendelssohn Piano Works, Vol. 2

As I remarked last November when Vol. 1 of this cycle appeared, the multiplicity of notes in Mendelssohn’s piano music...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1996

Franck Organ Works Vol. II

There is a majesty available at Beauvais, the harnessing of which can greatly enhance certain kinds of music. Enlisting its...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

Sculthorpe String Quartets

It’s been heartening to see the Peter Sculthorpe discography expanding so steadily in recent years. Discs of the superior quality...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2000

Prokofiev Piano Concertos

There is always something rather special about a real virtuoso crashing his way through the most extravagant cadenza in the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

Stanley Concertos for Strings, Op 2 Nos 1-6

With Corelli, Geminiani and Handel by far the most popular composers of string concertos in eighteenth-century England, few natives troubled...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1999

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

According to Wagner's stage directions, Brunnhilde launches the great closing scene of Gotterdammerung in a tone of ''solemn exaltation'', commanding...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1992

Wagner Tristan und Isolde - excerpts

These extracts have been reissued primarily as a timely tribute to Albert Coates, who must be no more than...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1989

Schoenberg Vocal Works

Not many discs of Schoenberg's music are as positively welcoming as this. The monodrama, Erwartung, may be among his more...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1993

Haydn Masses

This generous disc brings together on CD recordings of these three masses, previously available in different formats: the G major...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1989

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Loyal and eager collectors of the series will seek principally for an assurance that this is a worthy addition‚ which...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

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