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Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Op.50; Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2
For all its imposing dimensions and grandiose final apotheosis, there is something fundamentally intimate about the Tchaikovsky Trio. As such...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2011
Anna Netrebko - Sempre libera
In this ambitious programme, Anna Netrebko saves her very best for the last – and the best – music. Her...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2004
Scarlatti, D Salve Regina
Nicolau de Figueiredo | Seville Baroque Orchestra
Domenico Scarlatti is associated with heaps of harpsichord sonatas and a long career serving the Portuguese princess Maria Barbara (later...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2011
Boulez in Rehersal
Pierre Boulez | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The hectic international conducting schedule maintained by Pierre Boulez over the past decade has resulted in several live performances on...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2003
Vive Le Roy
This CD admirably highlights the close relationship between French music and Bach's compositions. Ponsford has contributed an informative and scholarly...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 5/2000
Bach (6) Harpsichord Partitas
Masaaki Suzuki joins a well-trammelled path of harpsichordists who have attempted to elucidate Bach’s exhaustive imagination in these six Titans....
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2003
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1; Romance
Between 1918 and his death two years later, the octogenarian Bruch, in a final burst of creativity, wrote two string...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2011
Stamitz Symphonies
(L') Arte del Mondo | Werner Ehrhardt
No Carl Stamitz, no consolidation of the Mannheim school of composers and performers founded by his father Johann. There were...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2011
Beethoven Symphony No 9; Coriolan Overture
This is a famous and famously successful recording of the Ninth, keenly felt and finely honed after the manner of...
Reviewed in issue 5/1995
Mahler Symphony No 4
Amanda Roocroft | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle
Rattle springs two big surprises in the first four bars. Tempo 1 might initially strike you as overcautious, an air...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1998
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