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Andrew Clements

Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition; Prokofiev: Sarcasms; Visions Fugitives - review

Steven Osborne (Hyperion) Few of today's leading pianists have a wider range of repertory than Steven Osborne , and it's to the credit of Hyperion that he has been allowed to reflect that range in his discs, instead of being forced into the monoculture

Philharmonia/Salonen - review

Royal Festival Hall, London Alongside this year's other high-profile anniversaries, the centenary of Witold Lutos?awski 's birth risks being overshadowed. But Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia have ensured that in London, at least, that won't hap

Wagner: Die Walk

Pape/Stemme/Kaufmann/Kampe/Gubanova/Mariinsky O/Gergiev (Mariinsky, four CDs) Taken from a series of concert performances that Valery Gergiev conducted in the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St Petersburg in February and April last year, this is the first in

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 - review

Brouwenstijn/Malaniuk/Windgassen/Weber/Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Furtw

Stevenson: Piano Music - review

Murray McLachlan (Divine Art, three CDs) Ronald Stevenson will celebrate his 85th birthday in March. Championing Stevenson's music has become a cause of a peculiarly British kind, as if the perceived neglect of his enormous output is the result of the