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Liszt: Piano Works

This is the third and certainly the most satisfying release of Earl Wild's Liszt series. Not only does the piano...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1988

Mozart Così fan tutte

These sets have two things in common—both present the score complete, both conductors want warmth and charm. Otherwise the Decca...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1991

Hartmann, E Songs

Less well known than his father Johann Peter Emilius, Emil Hartmann (1836-98) was nevertheless a respected figure in 19th-century Denmark....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2011

Mendelssohn and Schubert Symphonies

The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century here plays two symphonies of the nineteenth century ''on period instruments'', but which period...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1991

Dallapiccola Orchestral Works

Dallapiccola is thinly represented on record at the moment—surprisingly so, when so many rarities and obscurities are readily available. If...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1994

Hartmann String Quartets

With Hartmann's ninetieth anniversary approaching next year, it is good to see new recordings of his music beginning to appear...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Sibelius Piano Works

Like him or loathe him, Olli Mustonen has one of the most distinctive pianistic personalities of our day, and he...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2003

Haydn Symphony No 62, Sinfonias A & B

Naxos’s rather haphazardly planned Haydn symphony cycle reaches an unspectacular conclusion with three rarities: No 62 from c1780, when Haydn’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2009

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum

The Schloss vor Husum Festival has just marked its its 25th year. A celebration of the byways of piano literature,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2011

Chopin: Piano Works

This is unfailingly musical, warmly sympathetic Chopin playing, wholly free of obtrusive idiosyncrasies. Always you can rely on Livia Rev...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1989

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