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Schoenberg Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Schoenberg and the violin were not best friends. He may have learnt the instrument as a child but he soon...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 13/2005

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Boulez's Chicago Firebird is a masterly study in textural clarification, a cool-headed exegesis that traces and illuminates the score's every...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Sibelius/Bruch Violin Works

Recorded live, Midori gives commanding performances of both works, at once pure in tone and warmly expressive. If the sound...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1995

The Lorelei

Once again an entertaining mixture of rare and familiar songs fills out this latest recording devised by the conductor John...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/1994

Bruckner Symphony No.7

Hard on the heels of Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra giving us fine and powerfully articulated accounts of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009

Xenakis Works for Strings

Unlike most of his avant-garde contemporaries, Iannis Xenakis did not avoid using strings. And, as Michael Struck-Schloen points out in...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2006

Mozart Piano Trios K502 & K564; Divertimento K254

Pianist Ivan Klánsky dominates the group through his icy brilliance. Of course, Mozart did call these works piano trios; but...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2007

W.Lloyd Webber Vocal, Chamber & Piano Works

In September 1987, Malcolm Macdonald gave a warm welcome to ASV’s debut collection devoted to the music of William Lloyd...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Scriabin Piano Sonatas, Volume 2

It is five years since I reviewed Volume 1 of Bernd Glemser’s Scriabin piano sonata cycle (8/96), but Volume 2...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Bruch Violin Concertos

Only 21 this year, Joshua Bell in his first concerto recording gives formidably powerful performances of both the Bruch and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1988

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