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Beethoven Piano Sonatas

The discrepancy in timing looks drastic, but with one exception I shall mention it reflects nothing more than two equally...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Paderewski; Penderecki Works for Keyboard and Orchestra

Felicja Blumental gave the first performance of Penderecki’s Partita in 1971 and, switching from piano to harpsichord, relishes every minute...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2006

Walton; Rubbra Viola Concertos

It is good to welcome a modern recording of Walton’s Viola Concerto in its original orchestration. When in 1938 Frederick...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2007

20th Century Piano music by Ruggles, Reale, Bloch & Lipkis

The vast majority of Sibelius’s songs are in Swedish, the language with which he grew up as a child, and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1996

Martin Everyman – Six Monologues & other vocal works

On paper this looks like a no-hoper: very short measure for a full-price CD, respectable but second-rank singers in music...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2003

Elizabethan & Jacobean Consort Music

Philip Pickett and the New London Consort hit typically entertaining form in this enjoyable selection of consort music. Right from...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1994

Gómez-Martinez Orchestral Works

Fifty this year, Granada-born Miguel Gomez-Martinez is probably better known in this country as a conductor. This enterprising coupling reveals...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Janequin Chansons

Records of part-songs by the early sixteenth-century French composer Clement Janequin tend to be packed full of action, and this...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Grechaninov Orchestral & Vocal Works

Grechaninov’s Second Symphony has recently been released, affectionately performed in a 1983 recording by Edvard Chivzhel and the USSR Radio...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996

Beethoven String Quartets

The Guarneri Quartet are one of the most admired ensembles at present before the public and let me say straight...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990

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