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Busoni Piano Works & Transcriptions

Christopher O'Riley has chosen a taxing and ambitious programme for what I take to be his debut recital (the accompanying...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989

Fauré Piano Quartets

Fauré’s two piano quartets may be less advanced than the two later piano quintets but they are intricate and elusive...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2010

Music for the Coronation of James II, 1685

James II and Mary of Modena were crowned at Westminster Abbey on April 23, 1685. It was a magnificent occasion...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2007

Brahms Piano Quartet, Op. 25 (orch Schoenberg); Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 95 (arr Mahler)

The Brahms transcription is something of a masterpiece. Schoenberg’s objective was to clarify musical arguments that are often obscured when,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Brahms German Requiem

Unlike some other interpretations, there is nothing sentimental and little suave or mellow about this reading of the Deutsches Requiem,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1991

Pentecost at Pontigny

This recent recording from the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge presents both chant and polyphony for the feast of Pentecost at...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1993

Britten String Quartets

The Britten Quartet cannot be accused of taking this music too lightly. From the very first phrase of Britten's Second...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991

Bach Sonatas with Harpsichord Obbligato

In the third and last of this series of Bach’s complete sonatas for obbligato harpsichord and a melodic instrument (six...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1998

Bartók String Quartets

A journey that begins among the dank mists of late romanticism and ends in a mood of troubled calm, harbouring—midway—some...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Chopin; Liszt; Rubinstein (The) Welte Mignon Mystery, Vol 16

“Authentic performances” on piano rolls transferred to other media must be approached with a healthy degree of scepticism. So much...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2010

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