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Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
Alicia de Larrocha's Decca recordings of Mozart's piano concertos (nla) show that she can bring to his music a balance...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1991
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies
Among the many famous pianists who studied with Theodor Leschetizky, Mark Hambourg stood out as a force of nature gifted...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2006
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette/Nuits d'Ete
The trouble with Romeo et Juliette is that we have been spoilt by the versions by Davis (Philips) and Dutoit...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1993
Schubert and Schumann Piano Trios
Arthur Rubinstein | Henryk Szeryng | Pierre Fournier
Rubinstein was already in his later eighties (and Fournier only 20 years younger) when these recordings were made in 1972...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1989
Pavarotti - The Early Years, Vol.1
Probably the unique penalty of singing as well as Pavarotti has been doing in his late fifties is that records...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
Just Piano Trios Op. 2/1-6
“Who was Justin August Just?” the booklet-note well asks of this shadowy eighteenth-century figure, whose name, incidentally, all other reference...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1996
Beethoven Choral Symphony
Morris presents the Ninth Symphony in a traditional reading, warm and eloquent and persuasively played and sung. The first movement...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989
Stravinsky Sacred Choral Works
Only rarely have recordings of Stravinsky's choral compositions used ''children's voices'' when he asked for them. It is easy enough...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991
Mahler Symphony No 5
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott leads a meticulously detailed performance of Mahler’s Fifth. Every accent, dynamic marking and hairpin crescendo/diminuendo indication in the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2005
Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Yehudi Menuhin
Furtwangler and Edwin Fischer formed a long artistic partnership, and their glorious recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto bears witness to...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
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