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Pärt/Tavener Works for String Quartet
Tintinnabulation (a tinkling ringing of bells), a word that Arvo Part uses for describing his style, might equally apply to...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Brahms Chamber Works
Brahms's Piano Quintet is a large-scale, dramatic work, but some of its drama lies in its brooding mystery. The quiet...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1992
Brahms Piano Quartets
Since their Gramophone Award-winning Faure coupling in 1985 Domus have been reconstituted, with only Krysia Osostowicz (violin) and Susan Tomes...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988
Bach; Chopin; Mendelssohn Piano Works
One of the special delights of the Seventh Chetham’s International Summer School was this recital by Vanessa Latarche. Her carefully...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008
Mariss Jansons & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons | Pittsburgh Mendelssohn Choir | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
In some ways this is an impressive set; in others a somewhat frustrating experience. The evidence confirms Mariss Jansons as...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004
Elgar/Walton Violin Sonatas
John J Blakely | Lorraine McAslan
This is a most beautiful record. The two sonatas form an admirable coupling: associated by nationality of composer and century...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Locatelli: Violin Sonatas
Locatelli is one of those composers whose chamber works occasionally find a place in modern violin recitals, largely because of...
Reviewed in issue 11/1990
Bartok Orchestral works
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | James Levine
Hard on the heels of Sir Georg Solti's new Decca recording of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta comes Levine...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1991
Bach: Keyboard works
When Bach first wrote the Inventions (originally differently titled) in Wilhelm Friedemann's Clavierbuchlein he placed them in order of complexity...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1987
Walton Facade
David Lloyd-Jones | Eleanor Bron | Nash Ensemble | Richard Stilgoe
The Façade entertainment – poems by Edith Sitwell to music by the thenunknown William Walton – was an amorphous creation‚...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
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