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Mozart Complete Piano Concertos
By common consent, Mozart's piano concertos contain some of his finest music, and (since he wrote most of them for...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1990
Bruckner Symphony No 4
Karl Böhm | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Why, you might ask, does Decca, having Solti's brilliant digital version of this symphony in its CD catalogue already, bother...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985
Bizet Carmen
This 1951 mono set sounds surprisingly fresh in terms of recorded sound, and the performance benefits greatly from Reiner's alert...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989
Schubert Chamber Works
Siegfried Matthus (b.1934), a pupil of Hans Eisler, rose to prominence in the former East Germany as a composer of...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/1998
Schubert Impromptus
''Quintessential Schubert because they speak in the intimate tone and idiom of the drawing-room rather than the concert hall'' is...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1991
Schubert Trout Quintet
Alban Berg Qt | Elisabeth Leonskaja | Georg Hörtnagel
In all three earlier recordings above there are momentary miscalculations which Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Alban Bergs manage to avoid....
Reviewed in issue 11/1986
Schubert Chamber Works
Vienna Octet | Vienna Wind Soloists
This is a pleasing account of Schubert's Octet for three wind and five strings including double-bass, with warm and bassy...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1993
Schubert Piano Works for Four Hands
Of the great composers it was Schubert who devoted himself most seriously to the piano duet as an independent genre....
Reviewed in issue 12/1992
Schubert Octet
An intriguing point arises in the second movement. It is meant to be Adagio but the Gaudier pace it fairly...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2003
Hummel Quintet in E flat Op 87; Schubert Quintet D667 in A 'The Trout'
Christophe Gaugué | Stéphane Logerot | Wanderer Trio
We expect technical finesse and a thoughtful interpretive approach from the Wanderer Trio; these attributes are shared by the two...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2003
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