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Mozart Piano Trios
Record companies have been falling over each other to bring out single discs or sets of piano trios during Mozart...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2006
Michelangeli : Piano recital
Michelangeli's wizardry makes for a version of Beethoven's last sonata that I still respond to with a lot of enjoyment,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/1989
French Orchestral Works
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
The transparency of sound in this attractively devised collection comes out the more tellingly on CD, though at times—as in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1985
Poulenc Orchestral Works
Charles Dutoit | French National Orchestra | Pascal Rogé
It has taken three years for this disc to be issued, but I suppose the celebration of Poulenc’s centenary was...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999
Brahms Chamber Works
Allegri Quartet | James Campbell | Rian de Waal
I last heard Rian de Waal in a fine solo recital of Godowsky's piano music (Hyperion, 3/92) which Bryce Morrison...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992
Berlioz: Orchestral Works
Arturo Toscanini | Carlton Cooley | NBC Symphony Orchestra
The recorded quality of these performances (all except Carnaval romain from NBC broadcasts between 1945 and 1953) came in for...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1988
Mozart Orchestral Works
This well-planned collection arrives opportunely for those overfaced by the sheer scope and size of the splendid six-disc volume in...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991
Porter, Q Orchestral Works
Ian Hobson | Sinfonia Varsovia
Quincy Porter was a New Englander to the core but, like so many of his American contemporaries, he studied in...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2004
French and Russian Music for Piano and Winds
Reykjavik Wind Quintet | Vovka Ashkenazy
There is something very special about French chamber music for wind instruments and this collection is a splendid example. Vovka...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2007
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3; Violin Concerto
Joseph Swensen | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Here is a strong, intelligent performance of Mendelssohn’s greatest symphony. Not even in the Italian Symphony did he achieve such...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2003
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