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Brahms Orchestral Works
Hallé Orchestra | Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
There are no other bargain-price versions of the Fourth Symphony available at present, and Skrowaczewski's new disc fills the gap...
Reviewed in issue 9/1988
Chopin Ballades; Scherzos
Readers will probably be aware that in their original analogue format these performances were presented within recitals of mixed Chopin...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1987
Works for Cello and Orchestra
Charles Groves | Paul Tortelier | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
It is 16 years since Tortelier recorded the Elgar concerto for EMI with Boult in a performance that had always...
Reviewed in issue 3/1989
Elgar Cello Concerto
Andrew Shore | Graham Salvage | Hallé Orchestra | Heinrich Schiff | Mark Elder
Mark Elder’s stimulating exploration of Elgar on the Hallé’s own label continues with this immaculately prepared and poised account of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2004
Khatia Buniatishvili: Motherland
At her London recital in June, Khatia Buniatishvili played a second half of virtuoso works (Chopin, Ravel, Stravinsky) that bordered...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014
DEBUSSY String Quartet, Op 10. Premier Trio
Here are the first fruits of the Brodsky Quartet’s 40th-anniversary alliance with Chandos: an original and revealing Debussy coupling and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012
Bach French Suites
After his spectacular Rachmaninov and Scriabin performances, both on LP and in the concert hall, Bach was the last thing...
Reviewed in issue 6/1985
Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2014
Even more than some years’ instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
Kleiber conducts Waltzes and Overtures
Erich Kleiber viewed Strauss waltzes as symphonic poems, and that is just how he conducts them-with a shrewd eye on...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Borodin; Smetana String Quartets
Smetana's First and Borodin's Second String Quartets have proved to make a good coupling before, and do so here in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1989
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