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Frank Martin Orchestral Works

This invaluable issue restores not only the pioneering recording of Frank Martin’s masterpiece, the Petite Symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1996

Bennett, W S Symphony; Overtures

William Sterndale Bennett is pictured on the front of the disc as a very Victorian figure indeed. As a friend...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2007

Beethoven Symphony No 9

In 50 years' time will anyone want to reissue any contemporary conductor's live Beethoven Ninth on record? (Will Beethoven's Ninth...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1985

Menuhin plays Bach and Beethoven

Yehudi Menuhin’s post-war humanitarian pilgrimages were an inspiration to many traumatized communities. Playing in the newly liberated concentration camps, then...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Ingrid Haebler

As with one or two previous issues in this series, greatness is, to say the least, debatable here. Ingrid Haebler...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999

Brahms Piano Concerto No 2. Furtwängler Symphonic Concerto - exc

This live German Radio recording of Brahms's B flat Concerto by Fischer, Furtwangler and the Berlin Philharmonic has long been...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1999

Heavenly Blue

Winter & Winter’s releases are easily the most handsomely-packaged CDs around, but you’ll often look in vain, as here, for...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 5/2005

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2

So what if the packaging includes another halfdozen attractive images of the young Argentinianborn cellist? Reviewing her debut release of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2009

Handel Agrippina

Sensationally successful on its Venice premiere in January 1710, Agrippina may not be the most profound Handel opera but it...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2012

Barber & Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Recording quality is rather dry and boxy on this new Centaur issue and in quiet passages there is a pronounced...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

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