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Schumann Piano Works

Today‚ Italy is at the forefront where gifted young pianists are concerned‚ and Paolo Giacometti’s enterprising Schumann recital celebrates his...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Siegmeister Piano Works, Volume 1

A native of New York City and graduate of Columbia University, Elie Siegmeister (1909-91) studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000

Imperial Fanfares

Even those with delusions of grandeur will require stamina for 76 tracks of imperial fanfares and yet this is not...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2004

Bartók; Scarlatti - Liaisons, Vol 1

An exciting idea this…and it works! After all, Bartók greatly admired Scarlatti: he even recorded a couple of his sonatas....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2008

Twentieth-Century orchestral music

As anybody who has ever arranged a formal dinner for 1,000 people will be aware, no one is ever grateful...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1987

(The) Classic Film Music of Victor Young

Producer David O. Selznick described Victor Young as an ‘extremely practical and successful man in doing scores without nonsense and...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 5/1999

Weinberg Symphonies Nos 14 & 16

This third volume of Gabriel Chmura's Weinberg cycle features two single-movement symphonies from the years after Shostakovich's death. Each one...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2007

Hans Rosbaud - The Complete recordings on DG

The complete list of recordings by Hans Rosbaud, published in 1992, runs to an astonishing 854 items. True, most of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2004

Styne Gentleman Prefer Blondes; High Button Shoes

Although not the greatest successes songwriter Jule Styne ever had on Broadway – Gypsy and Funny Girl have proved more...

Reviewed by jsnelson in issue: 8/2006

Galuppi Motets

Galuppi was almost universally admired during his lifetime. The English musician and historian Charles Burney, visiting him in Venice in...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 10/1994

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