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Schubert Piano Works
The three works in Naxos's latest issue of Schubert's solo piano music show the remarkable relationship between thematic coherence, formal...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
Mozart Don Giovanni
Even those who have never been to Drottningholm and experienced Arnold Ostman's Mozart in the flesh will know exactly what...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1990
Grechaninov/Tchaikovsky String Quartets
Emilia Moskvitina | Shostakovich Quartet
Tchaikovsky's Third Quartet is a difficult work to play, and to record. Written in memory of Ferdinand Laub, the Bohemian...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993
Carter Dialogues; Boston Concerto; Cello Concerto
There are composers who get a second wind late in their career – and then there’s Elliott Carter. Late bloomers...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 4/2006
Foss Complete Works for Solo Piano
Born in 1922, Lukas Foss has a composing career stretching back over 70 years to his pre-teens in Weimar Germany,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2005
Tavener Schuon Lieder
Gillian McDonagh | Patricia Rozario | Schubert Ensemble of London
As the last century drew to a close, Tavener became strongly attracted to the works of the late Swiss philosopher...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 12/2005
Nieve Welcome to the Voice
“A work about unlikely encounters”, reads the subtitle, and beneath the list of singing luminaries on the album sleeve are...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2007
Handel Secular Cantatas
Basses Réunies (Les) | François Fernandez | Mira Glodeanu | Véronique Gens
The Handel revival of recent years has given only modest attention to the cantatas; this must be one of the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999
Hartmann/Szymanowski Violin Concertos
Christiane Edinger | Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra | Krzysztof Penderecki
It was the invasion of Szymanowski's native Poland that prompted Karl Amadeus Hartmann—no Nazi sympathizer—to write his Concerto funebre for...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1990
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ Vol 1
Those who possess Jane Parker-Smith’s French Romantic discs on ASV will welcome this new release from Avie, the sort of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 1/2004
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