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Ysaye 6 Solo Violin Sonatas

In these difficult times it is perhaps one's duty not to beat about the bush and pretend that a release...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1993

Brahms; Haydn; Schubert String Quartets

Although widely considered a DG ‘house’ ensemble, the Amadeus Quartet started and ended its recording career with Decca (Priaulx Rainier’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2004

Mozart Clarinet & Bassoon Concertos

Klaus Thunemann, who was born in 1937, originally—so the information on this new record tells us— ''aimed at the career...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1983

Sabata (La) notte di Platon, Gethsemani & Juventus

Blindfold listening tests will thrive on this one, though the fact that Victor De Sabata’s music sounds like everyone and...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Dubois Chamber Music

The name on the cover caught my eye. Organists will know Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) from his Toccata in G (No...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2009

Zemlinsky (Der) Traumgörge

Gorge the Dreamer was the most unfortunate work in Zemlinsky’s, on the whole, unfortunate career. It was already in rehearsal...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/2001

Kagel; Keuris String Quartets

Those of us who relish the barbed provocations of earlier Kagel – Acoustica, Ludwig van and Staatstheater, late ’60s/early ’70s...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2010

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Shostakovich jazz music? Taken at face value, this CD is nothing of the sort. Shostakovich's lively and endearing forays into...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/1993

Weigl Symphony No 5, 'Apocalyptic Symphony'; Phantastiches Intermezzo

‘Karl Weigl’s music will not be lost. We will return to it after the storm has passed. We will return...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

R. Strauss: Lieder

Strauss song recitals seem very popular with singers just now. These two provide strongly contrasted approaches to his Lieder. Alexander,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1985

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