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Busoni Piano Concerto

Busoni's Piano Concerto has never become a repertoire piece. It fits awkwardly into a concert programme, due to its length...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1999

Prokofiev The Love of Three Oranges

Goldoni’s play of 1761, adapted by Meyerhold in 1914 and set by Prokofiev four years later, was in many respects...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2001

Mendelssohn Works for Cello & Piano

These players give well-considered performances whose strong expression and lack of affectation take us to the heart of the music....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1999

Mozart Requiem Mass K626

There is no shortage of first-rate recordings of Mozart's Requiem; but in the wake of the Mozart year new ones...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1992

Nielsen Symphony No. 5; Maskarade: excs

How splendid that Sweden, always a good friend to Nielsen's music, is currently engaged on two cycles of the symphonies!...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1988

Offenbach (Les) Contes d'Hoffmann

Hoffmann is a contemporary fashion victim, afflicted by earnest editors determined to cobble together their definitive ‘original’, and by producers...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 13/2004

R.Strauss Orchestral Works

As I have said before, it sometimes seems to me lately that every conductor and orchestra on the globe is...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Debussy Piano Works

Mark Swartzentruber’s rare balance of sense and sensibility in this Debussy recital strips away all possible vagueness or accretion. Scrupulously...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006

Ockeghem Complete Secular Music

This was the last of the wonderful series of fifteenth-century song sets issued by L'Oiseau-Lyre Florilegium under the initiative of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1993

Tavener Lamentations and Praises

At a first listening‚ this work would seem to defy analysis. Is it a masterpiece? Or might it be a...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

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