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Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2
I’d have been impressed by the unity of purpose and style of these performances, I think, even without knowing that...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/1997
Bowen Viola and Piano Works
James Boyd | Lawrence Power | Philip Dukes | Scott Dickinson | Simon Crawford-Phillips
Charles Koechlin once claimed that “the viola would have to be invented for the Adagio from Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2008
Beethoven Piano Concerto in D after Violin Concerto Op 61; Schmidt Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven
Andrey Boreyko | Hamburg Symphony Orchestra | Ragna Schirmer
Annette Oppermann’s booklet-note provides fascinating background about the two works on offer and why they make such apposite couplings. She...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2005
Beethoven Sonatas for Piano No's 21, 23 & 32
Ronald Smith’s Beet-hoven is straightforward to the point of matter-of-factness. Perhaps that is the very point he is trying to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: /2000
Brahms String Sextet 1; Schubert String Quartet, D703
Alberni Qt | Moray Welsh | Roger Best
An attractive feature of this disc is the warm, comfortable, rather dark-brown sound-quality, which suits the Brahms work particularly well....
Reviewed in issue 3/1989
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
In a confrontational note accompanying these discs, Pearl's producer Allan Evans claims that previous attempts to present Schnabel's Beethoven on...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1994
Beethoven Piano Variations
Fascinating and individual in Debussy (1/01), Cédric Tiberghien now moves into Beethoven’s more rugged and forthright terrain, demonstrating his versatility...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2003
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
As one who endorses The Good CD Guide's recommendation of Maurizio Pollini's Beethoven Op. 110 of the mid-1970s, I was...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1994
Bartók/Prokofiev Violin Sonatas
David Oistrakh | Sviatoslav Richter
Playing of breathtaking artistry, as one might expect from this stellar partnership, recorded live at the 1972 Salzburg Festival. There...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1998
Beethoven Keyboard Sonatas
Eighteenth-century products though they were, Beethoven's three sonatas of Op. 10 all pre-echo things to come in the nineteenth. Melvyn...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992
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