Reissues Reviewed by Paul Riley

Czech Piano Music Anthology

Works by Dvo ák, Fibich, Janá ek & Smetana Alto ALC 4005 (1989-95) 298 mins (4 discs)

Alto’s four-disc album of Radoslav Kvapil’s eloquent and probing pianism is a useful introduction to somewhat neglected repertoire. ★★★★

Gyorgy Cziffra – The Master Collection Works by Brahms, Gershwin, Liszt etc Hungaroton HCD 32814-16 (1970s) 223:37 mins (3 discs) The Hungarian pianist was born to play Liszt; but his Gershwin grips, and virtuoso lollipops are enthusiastically licked. ★★★★

Nicolas de Grigny Livre d’orgue

Tempéraments TEM 316061/62 (1992)

108:46 mins (2 discs)

Saint Michel-en-thiérache’s pungently tuned 1714 Boizard organ deserves equal billing alongside André Isoir’s elegantly idiomatic traversal of a volume much admired by JS Bach. ★★★★

Organ Classics from King’s College

Works by JS Bach, Messiaen, Vierne etc

Alto ALC1401 (1993) 74:00 mins

Released in time for Stephen Cleobury’s imminent retirement from King’s College Cambridge, this wideranging cornucopia dishes up irrepressible Messiaen, magisterial Liszt, and ebullient Karg-elert. ★★★★