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Songs Without Words

This is the kind of record I have been hoping Murray Perahia would make for some time, one that plays...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2000

Rawsthorne Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Fantasy Ov. Cortèges.

Be honest now: who could possibly have foreseen that we would have had rival budget versions of both Rawsthorne violin...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Beethoven Bagatelles

The musical and expressive concentration of Beethoven’s Bagatelles – involving sudden and violent changes of mood – highlights the composer’s...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

A new Beethoven sonata cycle is usually a major event, whether in performance or on record. Alfredo Perl is the...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1997

Schubert Impromptus

Trying to describe the difference in sound between Perahia's recent CBS and Brendel's older (1972-5) Philips versions of these pieces...

Reviewed in issue 2/1984

Dunstable Motets

These first reissues in Virgin Veritas’s new Hilliard Edition mark a belated tribute to one of the most enduring names...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1997

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Once in a while a performance of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony will descend from on high like a benediction. This performance...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2009

Shostakovich Symphony No 11

Those who admire Inbal in Shostakovich will find plenty to satisfy them here. Objectively speaking, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra's sonority...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Schubert Masses Nos 2 and 4; Deutsche Messe

With its easy, songful charm and pastoral “Benedictus” cast as a round (shades here of the “canon” quartet in Fidelio),...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2010

Koussevitsky conducts Sibelius

Among the great conductors closely identified in the public mind with Sibelius (Kajanus, Bee cham and Karajan), Koussevitzky is the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990

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