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PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Violin Sonata Op 115
Arabella Steinbacher | Russian National Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
Prokofiev’s violin concertos have been strongly represented on disc since the mid-1930s when Joseph Szigeti and Jascha Heifetz took up...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013
Wolf Spanisches Liederbuch
Anne Sofie von Otter | Geoffrey Parsons | Olaf Bär
When I reviewed the mid-price reissue of the Schwarzkopf/Fischer-Dieskau set six years ago, I expressed surprise that this collection had...
Reviewed in issue 8/1995
Schubert Lieder
Dalton Baldwin | Gérard Souzay | Jacqueline Bonneau
Can a voice be ‘too beautiful’? That was the charge laid against Souzay by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2004
Brahms Sonata for Two Pianos; Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1
It may be jolting to hear Brahms’s F minor Piano Quintet in its previous, and less familiar, guise for two...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2003
JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier
Here we have two quite different approaches to the ‘48’: Peter Hill plays Book 2 on a modern Steinway, while...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2012
HINDEMITH Tuttifäntchen
Hindemith’s ‘Christmas story in three scenes’ has long been the Cinderella among his stage works, especially on disc. Although CPO...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
Brahms Violin Concerto
Boris Belkin | London Symphony Orchestra
I enjoyed Boris Belkin's account of the Brahms Concerto a great deal more than TH who made a direct comparison...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 23
Ivor Bolton | Lars Vogt | Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
The orchestral tutti which launches Mozart’s D minor Concerto is a good gauge of the kind of performance in store:...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 9/2009
Britten: Songs
Benjamin Luxon | David Willison
The relative novelty in this recital is a group of five British folk-song arrangements that Benjamin Britten made for voice...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1987
Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Georg Solti | István Sztankay | Kolos Kováts | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sylvia Sass
Bartok's 'psychological' two-hander ought to make ideal gramophone fare, but the record companies have sometimes contrived to thwart our listening...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
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