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Brahms Orchestral Works

Here are two strongly contrasted readings of the First Symphony. Jiri Belohlavek, now in his mid-forties, is a well-established figure...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

Sonatas from Dresden

The exuberantly baroque city of Dresden provides the peg on which to hang some well-contrasted string sonatas by composers associated...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1999

Prokofiev/Janacek Violin Sonatas

Both players were born in 1960, Devos in Brussels where Hardy (originally from Baltimore) now lives. How long they have...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Mozart (Le) nozze di Figaro; Ravel Shéhérazade; Strauss Four Last songs

It was only really with Mélisande for Pierre Boulez and Countess Almaviva for Otto Klemperer that Elisabeth Söderström became a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004

Verdi Macbeth

However arresting the film for which this recording forms the soundtrack may be (see page 20), the set has to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987

Liszt Piano Sonata

With this recording Haiou Zhang, a young pianist trained in both China and Germany, celebrates Liszt year in masterly and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011

Bach St Matthew Passion

Having swept the board with their Award-winning Messiah, John Butt and the Dunedin Consort and Players proceed headlong into the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2008

Vivaldi and Giuliani Guitar Concertos

There are several good LP recordings of the Giuliani Concerto, the earliest of its kind to be written, but this...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1987

Beethoven (The) Complete Piano Concertos

These recordings were made in the National Concert Hall in Budapest in June and November 2005. It is not a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2009

Dvorák Complete Piano Trios, Vol 1

Dvorák’s piano trios divide clearly into two groups. Nos 1 and 2, from 1875-76, belong to a stage when the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2004

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