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Schumann Carnaval; Fantasiestücke; Papillons
This is Hamelin’s second Schumann recital for Hyperion. Once again, for the most part, there is a reassuring sense of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2006
American Music for Clarinet and Piano
Béatrice Berne | Laurent Martin
John Cage’s In a Landscape is a masterpiece of oriental calm, and it’s nicely played here but the bass note...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2004
Elgar Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata; String Quartet; Piano Quintet
Hugh Bean (1929-2003) was just nine when he became a pupil of Albert Sammons, and you can hear something of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2004
Brian Legend; Songs
Brian Rayner Cook | Peter Lawson | Roger Vignoles | Stephen Levine
Approximately one quarter of Havergal Brian’s song output features on this superbly remastered issue, sung vividly in the Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2006
Haydn String Quartets, Op.64
My immediate reaction, on noticing that Hungaroton had decided to reissue the Tatrai Quartet's 1964-5 mono recording of Haydn's six...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1987
Hurlstone Orchestral Works
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nicholas Braithwaite
What a grievous loss to British music was William Hurlstone's early demise (a 30-year-old victim of bronchial asthma); happily, this...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1993
Khachaturian Piano Works
Were it not that the tenth anniversary of Khachaturian's death is approaching, and that anniversaries provide apparently irresistible pegs for...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1987
Grieg Orchestral Works
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra | Terje Mikkelsen
In recent times some very good records have been made by less well-known orchestras. On this disc the Lithuanian National...
Reviewed in issue 5/1993
Bernstein conducts Modern Masters
Columbia Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein | Ruth Posselt
Sample this audacious collection of 1950s mono originals for the underrated Symphony by American composer Harold Shapero (born 1920). Though...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
Haydn String Quartets
The peculiarly subtle, intimate E flat Quartet, Op. 20 No. 1, is an elusive work in performance, and for all...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1995
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