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Bach Goldberg Variations

Coincidentally, each of these American pianists made his recording in New York in June 1994. There, however, the similarity ends....

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

Elgar Sea Pictures; (The) Music Makers

The competition's tough but this new performance of The Music Makers (one of Elgar's most poignant and troubled utterances, which...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2006

Wilhelm Backhaus plays Chopin Etudes

The Mozart K314 exists in another form as the Flute Concerto in D major, and there is a case to...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Gluck I Cinesi

In the hands of Gluck, Metastasio's Le cinesi (''The Chinese ladies'') is a delightful work. How very interesting it would...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Albrecht Mayer - In Venice

This first appears to be a boring star vehicle: the copious artwork shows Albrecht Mayer in all kinds of implausible...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2008

Carver Missa Dum sacrum mysterium, etc

The music enjoyed by the royal houses of Scotland reached a peak around the year 1513. The Chapel Royal, reorganized...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1997

Rossini Bianca e Falliero

Bianca e Falliero may be signposted as a Romeo-and-Juliet plot moved to Venice and granted a happy ending, with a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2006

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 4, 8 & 14

In the second volume of her Beethoven sonata cycle Mari Kodama offers performances which, even in a crowded market, are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2005

Bach French Suites

Even the most out-and-out purists who blench at the thought of Bach on so alien an instrument as the piano...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1996

Hasse Cantatas, Ballads and Sonatas

Though chiefly celebrated now, as in his own day, as an opera composer, Hasse wrote a significant quantity of sacred...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1994

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