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Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17, 21 and 31

This thought-provoking recital unites three sharply contrasted Beethoven sonatas. For David Wilde, the “irrepressible optimism” of the Waldstein is opposed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2011

Works for violin and orchestra

Trevor Harvey gave the LP equivalent of Stern's coupling a lukewarm reception and certainly Stern's timbre is but a pale...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986

Ropartz Piano Works

The growing representation of Magnard in the catalogue seems to be prompting some welcome interest in his friend the Breton...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1987

Telemann Orchestral Suites

You are a talented and respected composer in your late thirties, living in Frankfurt. Your apartments are over the Stock...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000

Rossini Stabat Mater

This is as expertly shaped and directed a performance of Rossini’s Stabat mater as you could wish to hear. Indeed,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2003

Mendelssohn Piano Concertos 1 & 2

It can't be disputed that the quality of piano playing offered by these three records is of high class. Indeed,...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1983

Britten (3) Suites for Cello Solo

There have been some fine recordings of the Britten Suites in recent years, and Paul Watkins’ is certainly among them....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2004

Mendelssohn Concertos

It is an attractive coupling having the great E minor Violin Concerto in tandem with the youthful D minor, but...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1986

Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929)

As a frontispiece for the insert-notes, imperious Lilli stands, one hand held hieratically aloft, the other brandishing the portentous goblet...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Schubert String Quartets, Volume 3

This disc, Vol. 3 of the Coull’s Schubert series, has similar virtues to their fine account of the A minor...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1998

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