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Dvorák String Quartets Nos. 10 and 14

This latest addition to the Vlach Quartet of Prague’s Dvorak series for Naxos by and large maintains the generally favourable...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1997

Chopin Works for Piano & Orchestra

The contents of these two CDs were originally issued on three LPs, and in the new format the Fantasy on...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1988

Works for clarinet and orchestra

This record is really a homage to Heinrich Baermann, the great clarinettist who did more than any of his colleagues...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1985

Bruch; Mendelssohn Octets

Mendelssohn and Bruch are frequent CD companions – but not with these works! It’s astonishing that such a substantial, characteristic...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2006

Balakirev & Liadov Orchestral works

Balakirev's First Symphony was one of Sir Thomas Beecham's favourite pieces, as concertgoers of the older generation have grateful cause...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1987

Copland and Bernstein The Composer as performer

The composer’s own (truncated?) recording of Appalachian Spring (transferred from a set of private acetates) dates from 1944, shortly after...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1997

Coleridge-Taylor Chamber Works

Coleridge-Taylor was very well thought of by Stanford, his teacher at the Royal College of Music; and not just out...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Donizetti Linda di Chamounix

Fs¬?:?I>, Donizetti’s first commission for Vienna’s Kärntnertor Theatre, contains some of his finest and most touching music, unfortunately tied to...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 5/2003

Feldman Coptic Light

In 1994 Tilson Thomas said he thought Feldman’s music was still greatly underestimated given it was so beautiful and important....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1998

Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Oboe Concerto

As RF was saying in March, the time must be near when only basset versions of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1986

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