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Prokofiev (The) Love for Three Oranges

The Love for Three Oranges should be a natural for DVD. The eponymous fruits are only a small part of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2006

Beethoven/Schubert String Quartets

The cover shows that this young American quartet is extremely photogenic. And the musicmaking is the aural equivalent—glamorous in tone-quality,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

Fauré Requiem; Martin Maria-Triptychon

No other recording of the Faure Requiem is so generously or so attractively coupled as this one: Frank Martin's Maria-Triptychon...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Schnittke Cello Concerto 2

By 1990 Schnittke had largely abandoned the stylistic juggling acts which offer easy access to the first-time listener. In their...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Sibelius Piano Trios Vol 1

All the works for piano trio gathered here were written between 1883-86, prior to Sibelius’s composition studies under Martin Wegelius...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2004

Britten St Nicholas; Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

This recording of Britten’s St Nicolas was made live just before Christmas 2002 in Zurich’s Tonhalle, giving it a convivial...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 4/2004

Poulenc Piano Works

Readers of Gramophone need no reminding that Pascal Roge is an excellent Poulenc pianist, whose playing has a fetching gamin...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991

Strauss, R Burleske; Beethoven Symphony No 7

Richard Strauss’s youthful Burleske is a wonderful piece, scabrous, quick-witted, packed with invention and, like much of Strauss’s piano music...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2008

Rakowski Piano Études

For William Blake, exuberance rather than prudence equalled beauty and there is certainly nothing prudent about David Rakowski (b1958) and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003

Claudia Muzio sings Opera Arias & Songs

If there were just two sopranos of the Italian school to take to my desert island, one would, of course...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989

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