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Schubert String Quartets Nos 10 & 14
This is certainly more than just another version of Death and the Maiden. The Yggdrasil have clearly considered their interpretation...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2003
Mozart Cosi fan tutte
Sir Peter Moores comments that the phrase “Così fan tutte” is “almost impossible to translate” into English. Thus it is...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2008
Bartók Violin Sonatas
Kurt Nikkanen | Rohan de Silva
Here is an impressive recital disc from Kurt Nikkanen, following up on the Glazunov and Tchaikovsky concertos which EG warmly...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Gubuaidulina Viola Concerto; Kancheli Styx
This is an audacious start for Yuri Bashmet’s new association with DG. Not that he is any stranger to the...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2; Violin Sonata No 1 (arr vc).
Bernard Haitink | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Emanuel Ax | Yo-Yo Ma
Brahms’s B flat Concerto begins with the first movement’s first subject heard as a hushed exchange between horn, piano and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1999
Prokofiev (The) Stone Flower
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
The Tale of the Stone Flower is not exactly top-notch Prokofiev. Its plot is pure fairy-story, for all that Prokofiev’s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2003
Orchestral music by Debussy and Ravel
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan
Karajan's 1965 DG account of La mer was a classic and, together with Giulini and the Philharmonia from 1963 (HMV...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1986
Roseingrave Keyboard Works
''The English Orpheus'', Hyperion's series of discs devoted to English music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, reaches its ninth...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1992
Walter Leigh Piano Music and Songs
Elizabeth Nash | Peter Hewitt | Philip Mountford | Robert Douglas | Sarah Down
Walter Leigh first studied composition at Cambridge University under Dent; later at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik under Hindemith. The...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Sances Sacred & Secular Songs for Soprano, Harp & Guitar
Jan Walters | Liliana Mazzarri | Sarah Pillow | Steven Player
Sances published several books of his music prior to his appointment in 1649 as Kapellmeister of the chapel of the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/2000
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