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Duo Virtuoso II: Works for Violin & Cello
Aside from Kodaly’s Duo for violin and cello, Mozart’s two duos for violin and viola and the ubiquitous Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW17
NIETZSCHE Piano Music
Incompetence, amateurism, banality and ineptitude figure largely in previous Gramophone assessments of Nietzsche’s compositional efforts. My guess is that they would...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017
KODÁLY; BARTÓK Concertos for Orchestra (Hrůša)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa
Here’s a pairing rarely made on disc, yet they are natural partners: two Concertos for Orchestra by Hungarian composers, each...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2018
Mahler Des knaben Wunderhorn
Bernd Weikl | Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Lucia Popp
I can't summon much enthusiasm for this new issue of the Wunderhorn songs. It's very aggressively recorded, with everybody far...
Reviewed in issue 2/1988
Chopin Piano Works
André Previn | Maria João Pires | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Since recording much Mozart, Chopin and Schumann for Erato, Maria-Joao Pires has become a different and very great pianist. Here,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Paavo Järvi
Maybe because the sound is so chilly and uninviting I am left with a distinctly monochrome impression of Paavo Järvi's...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2007
Mahler Symphony No 1
Michael Halász | Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Halasz's Mahler is of the straightforward, self-effacing variety, without grandiloquent gestures or huge weight of sonority. His intentions are probably...
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
From Fischer to Richter and Gould to Tureck, they have all played Bach on the piano. Indeed no pianist has...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: /2000
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. Czech Suite
Claus Peter Flor | Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Rob Cowan rightly heaped praise upon this team’s two previous Dvořák symphony anthologies (8/12 and 11/12) and now it’s my...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2013
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 22
Odense Symphony Orchestra | Scott Yoo | Vassily Primakov
This third volume in Vassily Primakov’s Mozart cycle pairs two of the loveliest of his concertos, both particularly notable for...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012
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