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Bach & Tchaikovsky Piano music

These two recordings date from 1954 and each rather sounds its age, despite improvements to the original sound. Of Richter's...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1986

Borodin Symphonies 1-3

Borodin’s three symphonies can just about be fitted on a single disc, since there are really only two and a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2011

Simpson String Quartets 7 & 8

Of all the composers to use the tonal system in the second half of the twentieth century, Shostakovich had an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1984

Nathan Milstein-Concert performances & Broadcasts

Harald Saeverud (1897-1992) is a difficult composer to characterise (Grove refers to the ‘atonal expressionism’ of his Cello Concerto, a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/2000

French Impressionist Piano Music

Perhaps no two people will exactly agree about what 'impressionist' means, in music: but surely all should fully agree that...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Dvorák String Serenade; Elgar String Serenade; Grieg Holberg Suite

My favourite versions of these oft-recorded works for string orchestra are all lush-toned and deeply expressive (see above), which perhaps...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 4/2004

Pergolesi Livietta e Tracollo & La Serva Padrona

La serva padrona, most famous of intermezzi, is given here with a rare but comparable companion-piece. Livietta e Tracollo was...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Mozart: Concert Arias

Six years separate these two recordings: years in which Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has refined her Mozartian style, and developed...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1988

Scarlatti, A (La) Santissima Trinitá

One day we will run out of Baroque music worth rediscovering, I suppose, but for the moment there seems no...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2004

Grains of Gold Sonatas by Bodin de Boismortier

The extraordinary versatility and sheer commercial productiveness of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (over 100 opus numbers published between 1724 and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/1996

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