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R. Strauss Salome

When I saw this recording announced, I wondered if there was any place for it given the already well-stocked field....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1999

Beethoven Piano Quartet

Though Beethoven never wrote an original string quintet, he did make this arrangement of his Piano Trio, Op 1 No...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010

Shostakovich Symphony No 10

Simon Rattle's performance of the first movement of this symphony of the slowest I have ever heard, and by a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Beethoven String Quartets, Op 18, Nos 2 & 3

How you respond to these interpretations will depend on how you respond to the playing style of the Mosaïques Quartet....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2007

Satie: Various Works

Manuel Rosenthal was born in 1904 in Paris and grew up in the French capital that Satie knew in the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Brahms Serenade

This performance was first included in a box of seven records forming part of DG's 150th anniversary celebration of Brahms's...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Tuur Desert Island

Tuur (b 1959) is, I find, a variable composer, although it may just be that my response to his music...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart Flute Concertos Nos 1 & 2

These are rather unconventional readings of the Mozart concertos with flute in which the text is treated more freely than...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2003

British Music from America

My pleasure in renewing acquaintance with the two important Cincinnati recordings on CD has been spoilt just a little by...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Chopin Complete Songs

It is a moot point as to whether Chopin ever intended any of his songs should survive his death. In...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011

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