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Piano Works
Of these three CDs of me Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto the Gavrilov is undoubtedly the most distinctive. The opening is...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1988
Piano Variations
Eduard Brunner | Ingrid Karlen | Michelle Makarski
Carefully chosen, ‘themed’ recitals are always welcome. Yet it’s far from easy to get the packaging right. Michelle Makarski’s outstandingly...
Reviewed in issue 7/1997
Prokofiev - 50th Anniversary Edition
Record companies and book publishers are vying to mark the 50th anniversary of Prokofiev’s death in the appropriate style. But...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2003
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 SCHUBERT Symphony No 8
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Interesting that the symphony included here that is played by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Claudio Abbado recorded with the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
Orchestral Focus: Bruckner Symphonies
‘Revaluation’ and ‘revelation’ are the words that most immediately come to mind in response to this remarkable release in Unitel’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2022
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Martha Argerich
This is the first instalment of two devoted to Martha Argerich in Philips’s Great Pianists series and the material here...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/1998
Popular Orchestral Works
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
This is one of those CDs which demonstrates only too well that if the microphone placing, within a chosen acoustic,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985
Maurice André plays Trumpet Concertos
Maurice André | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
What James Galway is to the flute Maurice Andre is to the trumpet, a distinguished virtuoso who not infrequently borrows...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1985
BACH; BARTÓK; BOULEZ Works for Solo Violin
‘It is a concert!’ begins Michael Barenboim in the engaging booklet-notes he’s written to accompany this recording. And indeed it...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017
Maurice André plays Trumpet Concertos
Maurice André | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Some decades ago I offered a correspondence course ''which renders the execution of difficulty easily''—so wrote an overseas subscriber in...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1985
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