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Elgar Symphony 1

In its purposeful symphonic thrust and unsentimental objectivity, Sir Roger Norrington's interpretation of Elgar's First Symphony is basically in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2000

Haydn String Quartets, Op. 54

Composed in 1788 for the wheeler-dealer virtuoso violinist Johann Tost, the three Op. 54 works contain more florid and flamboyant...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1995

Macdowell Piano Music, Volume 3

MacDowell’s star may have faded to near oblivion over the years. Yet even when his very personal and oddly touching...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996

A.B. Michelangeli Early Recordings

The Brahms Variations and the Bach/Busoni were recorded in London on October 26th and 27th, 1948 respectively. Michelangeli was still...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1993

Rossini Opera Arias

A protégée of Kiri Te Kanawa, Julia Lezhneva reportedly stole the show singing Rossin at last year’s Classical BRIT Awards....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2011

Shostakovich Symphony No 10; Glanert Theatrum bestiarum

The Tenth is not one of the Shostakovich symphonies that needs sandblasting Soviet-era sonorities to make its proper impact. Still,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2008

Works for Viola and Piano

These are big pieces, all three of them, and they receive imposingly big performances. All the readings are acutely aware,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1994

Rossini Sonate a quattro

Oh, dear! A full-price CD which runs for a meagre 55 minutes and includes just four of Rossini’s youthfully engaging...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2002

Klemperer conducts the Concertgebouw, Vol.2

Those who are familiar with Klemperer's post-war Vox LPs and live post-war recordings issued by Decca and Hungaroton, will know...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Faure Violin sonatas

There is of course a great contrast between the A major Sonata‚ Fauré’s first published work for instruments without voices‚...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

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