Howard Shelley (piano) Hyperion CDA 67814 (2 CDs for the price of 1) *** This fifth volume of Howard Shelley’s Clementi survey contains the music most people will recognise as Clementi’s. Clementi may ...

Although he has been dead for 175 years, Italian composer Muzio Clementi’s work is far from extinct. The latest evidence of this comes from the release of Walter Schenkman’s 10th CD, in which features ...

Founded in 1920 by A H Fox Strangways, Music and Letters is long established as the leading British journal of musical scholarship. Its coverage embraces all fields of musical enquiry, from the ...

Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of piano prodigy Muzio Clementi. Muzio Clementi was one of the 18th and 19th century’s most revered musicians – a star performer, a composer admired by ...

Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...