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Bach Harpsichord Works

What connects this miscellany of pieces is that they were all early works of Bach’s (though he later revised the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1999

Prokofiev Symphony No 5. Lt Kijé Suite

I wish I could be more enthusiastic. As a staunch Vernon Handley admirer, I have repeatedly entreated the record companies...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1989

Granados Goyescas

Albeniz’s Iberia and Granados’s Goyescas may form the twin peaks of Spanish pianism but they could hardly be more different....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1997

Dalbalvie Violin Concerto; Color; Ciaccona

Marc-André Dalbavie (b1961) is one of the more visible French composers of his generation and as such he is able...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2005

Borodin/Dvorák Chamber Works

The principal attraction is L. Drew’s nicely judged arrangement of Borodin’s Second Quartet, a skilful balance of expressive solo lines...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Haydn Symphonies 88/89 & Sinfonia Concertante

This latest issue in Bruggen’s formidable Haydn series neatly fills a gap between his two-disc set of the six ‘Paris’...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2000

Chopin Piano Works

I first heard Grigory Sokolov at the 1988 Druizniki Festival in Poland, where he played an unforgettable Chopin Second Concerto...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1994

Blow & Purcell: Countertenor Works

''Ah, Heav'n! What is't I hear?'' A feast of English melancholy as only Purcell and Blow could prepare, sung by...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

William Matteuzzi - Ferme tes yeux...

Recital discs such as this from Opera Rara and the allied series in Chandos’s ‘Opera in English’ have proved not...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Britten Who are these Children?; Winter Words

Through Britten’s settings of each, the programme brings into thoughtful and (I would suppose) unanticipated relationship two poets, Thomas Hardy...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2008

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