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Brahms Symphony No 3 & Alto Rhapsody
In Abbado's hands, the opening of the symphony is a massive gesture, the rising wind motif suggesting a drama-in-progress, the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1991
Smetana Má Vlast
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Nikolaus Harnoncourt
‘My father was practically Czech,’ says Nikolaus Harnoncourt after enquiring whether there are any Czech musicians in the orchestra. There...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2012
Martha Argerich: Lugano Concertos
The four CDs come in a slip-case the size and thickness of the average paperback measuring about 8"x5" in old...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013
SCHUMANN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3 (Elias Quartet)
In 2010 the Elias Quartet played the first of Schumann’s three string quartets at Wigmore Hall – a richly characterised,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018
BRAHMS Clarinet Sonatas (Widmann)
As is evident from both the booklet notes and their playing, Jörg Widmann and András Schiff share a love of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW20
AXELROD '5x4'
Black Oak Ensemble | Clocks in Motion | Lakeshore Rush | The Growlers | The Pyrenean Quartet
The concept here is five (relatively recent) quartets, all constituted very diversely, performed by five different ensembles, but all the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023
REGER Piano Concerto (Becker)
Joshua Weilerstein | Markus Becker | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Markus Becker’s love affair with Reger’s piano oeuvre first manifested itself on CD with the complete solo piano music, initially...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019
GOUNOD St Cecilia Mass BIZET Te Deum
Recorded as long ago as 1996, this reissue makes catalogue sense: a double-up of sacred works by major 19th-century French...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019
Schönberg, C (Les) Misérables 25th Anniversary
“Dream the dream”, it says on the album sleeve and indeed all the publicity for the 25th anniversary production and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2010
DEBUSSY En blanc et noir. MESSIAEN Visions de l'Amen
Haakon Austbø | Ralph Van Raat
It was an inspired idea in 2010 for Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal to pair these two major 20th-century French...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012
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