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Beethoven Cello Sonatas
This was one of the great recordings of the 1960s, and it still sounds magnificent. Richter rightly sees the piano...
Reviewed in issue 1/1985
Beethoven; Ferguson; Schubert Violin Sonatas
Myra Hess and Isaac Stern first met in 1951, at the Casals festival in Perpignan. During the following years the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2011
Perspectives 3
Listeners who’ve followed Andreas Haefliger’s solid virtuosity and serious, thoughtful musicianship from his Sony Classical days (will they ever reissue...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008
Golden Age of the Piano Duet, Vol 1
This generously filled disc celebrates, as its title declares, the Golden Age of the Piano Duet. Beethoven’s Three Marches, Op....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1999
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Schubert Piano Sonata, D958
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra | Jascha Horenstein | John Ogdon
This welcome addition to the steady trickle of John Ogdon releases finds him in an area with which he is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2004
Brahms Waltzes
On one of Walter Legge’s first forays to Vienna after the war, in 1947, he recorded the Liebeslieder with the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1997
Poulenc Le Bal masqué etc.
A disc that fans of the early gamin Poulenc will fall on with cries of joy. He was always happiest...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1997
Strauss (Die) Fledermaus
It’s 33 years since I reviewed the soundtrack of this recording as a Decca album (4/75). I found it then...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2008
Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina
The first instalment of Melodiya’s Russian Piano School series was the highlight of my last year’s reviewing (8/95), and the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Beethoven Violin Sonata No 7, Schubert, Saint-Saëns
Nicole Hagner | Viviane Hagner
The first thing to say about Viviane Hagner’s violin playing is that it promotes a bright, sweetly expressive tone, a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2000
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