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Shostakovich; Shchedrin Piano Concertos

For a virtuoso as consummate as Marc-André Hamelin, Shostakovich’s piano concertos might seem almost like a stroll in the park....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2004

Lescurel Fontaine de grace

Reputedly hanged for debauchery at Paris in 1304, Jehannot de Lescurel is a perplexing figure. His 30-odd songs are known...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 8/1995

Shostakovich The Limpid Stream-Suite from the Ballet

Shostakovich may have put his all into his two completed operas, but he never pretended that his other stage music...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Haydn/Mozart Violin Concertos

I was again struck by Isabelle van Keulen's celestially fresh tone. For some reason the excellent band that supports her...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Spectrum 4 - Miniatures for Solo Piano

These 66 miniatures, lasting from half a minute to just over three minutes, were commissioned and published by the Associated...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2006

Verdi La Traviata

Two great Spanish prima donnas in their famous interpretations of Violetta return to the catalogue, now on CD, at the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1988

Bach Violin Concertos

It must be a good thing, for the sake of variety, that baroque music is not yet the exclusive province...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/1996

Peeters Organ Works

This welcome release should do much to restore Peeters’s reputation as one of the most craftsmanlike and consistently satisfying organist-composers...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2011

Dreams of a World

Few artists have done more than Sharon Isbin to help guitar programmes break free of the over-trodden cul-de-sac so often...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/2000

Jubilate Deo!

This belated celebration of the Monteverdi Choir’s thirtieth birthday comes three years after that notable anniversary in 1994 with the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/1997

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