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Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

With this richly comprehensive two-CD album Pascal Amoyel finds his truest métier, playing with an extraordinary richness and intensity of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2008

Poulenc Music for Two Pianos

As far as I am concerned, Poulenc is usually synonymous with enjoyment, and there are things to relish in this...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1993

Barock Orgel

These CDs provide an enjoyable collection of pieces from six of the finest organist-composers of the 17th and 18th centuries....

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/2002

A Royal Songbook

I listened to this disc with mixed feelings. On the one hand, these performances of songs and instrumental music from...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1996

Grieg Folk Dances and Songs; Piano Transcriptions

This disc neatly complements the outstanding recent disc of Grieg Lyric Pieces from Leif Ove Andsnes (EMI‚ 4/02). Like his...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Catalani (La) Wally

Catalani was by instinct and temperament a post-Verdian (even an anti-Vcrdian) composer whose short life ended just as the post-Verdian...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1990

Rameau - Harpsichord Works

Rameau’s output of nearly 50 solo harpsichord pieces may be of a conveniently and enticingly manageable size – it can...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Mahler Das Klagende Lied

As I recall, the Prom from which this performance derives was an exciting occasion, notable mainly for Rozhdestvensky’s highly dramatic...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996

Bach Orgelbüchlein

The capacity of an audio CD just about stretches to the complete Orgelbuchlein. My sceptical nature prompts me to wonder...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1999

Purcell's Shakespeare

The link between Shakespeare and Purcell is several times removed from the oft-purported and erroneous conception that England’s Orpheus was...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

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