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Elgar Orchestral Works

Following the Hallé Orchestra’s excellent Elgar recordings with Mark Elder, it is good to have a reminder of the orchestra’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2004

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

At last. Gary Graffman’s recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Second and Third Concertos were the ones which introduced me to these works....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2006

Lidholm Orchestral Works

Full marks to Chandos for their enterprise; all of the works on this disc have been recorded before, but this...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Ormandy conducts Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky

It is fascinating to hear Ormandy at the very start of his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997

Debussy/Ravel String Quartets

Having suggested more than once in Gramophone that coupling the Debussy and Ravel string quartets has become a cliche of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Debussy Orchestral Works

If you felt that there were icebergs and penguins in Boulez's 1967 La mer (CBS, 11/87—nla), was the pervasive chilliness...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 3/1995

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

Gradually, all of Brendel's earlier Beethoven sonata recordings are being reissued on CD format, and this latest set from Vox...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Haydn Orchestral Works

Dorati’s elegantly poised account of Haydn’s Trauersinfonie – with its prolongation of the Adagio’s mood of contemplation with a smooth,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Grandert Symphony No 5; String Quartet No 4

A real find. A controversial experimenter in the 1960s, from 1971 Johnny Grandert (b.1939) turned to more orthodox genres. The...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Kreisler/R.Strauss String Quartets

Did you even know Fritz Kreisler wrote a string quartet? But here it is, recorded by an American string quartet...

Reviewed in issue 4/1988

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