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Cerha Cello Concerto; Schreker Symphony

ECM has performed another valuable service in releasing a major work by Friedrich Cerha who, now in his early eighties,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2007

Mozart Symphonies Vol. 3

First, a puzzle. The booklet-note says ‘We have consulted Neal Zaslaw’s outstanding studies (Mozart’s Symphonies; Oxford: 1989) and have chosen...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2011

Pergolesi La serva padrona

Pergolesi's influential mini-masterpiece comes up well on this new Hungarian recording. The two singers, both of whom have distinguished themselves...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1987

For Lute and Bass Viol A recital of 16th Century Music

Collectors of Britten's music may already have all these pieces on disc, even the Tennyson setting Now sleeps the crimson...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Clementi Piano Sonatas Vol 4

With these two discs Howard Shelley’s cycle of Clementi piano sonatas moves into the 1790s, the decade when Haydn was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2009

Sibelius Kullervo Symphony

In one sense this is in a class of its own in that none of the comparisons listed above is...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1997

Leoncavallo I Pagliacci; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

These two sets place us in a quandary; both have so much to offer that choice between them is extremely...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1987

Piotr Anderszewski - Carnegie Hall Recital

Some recital, this. Piotr Anderszewski establishes a commanding tone for the opening section of the Second Partita’s Ouverture, hopping elegantly...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2009

Handel Radamisto

Radamisto was Handel's first opera for the Royal Academy of Music, the company set up in 1719 under his musical...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1994

Van Cliburn Competition 1993 Gold Medal Winner

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (its progress, from humble beginnings to a lavish extravaganza, lovingly charted in the insert-notes...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1994

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