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Horowitz At Home

Compounded of recordings made at various times between 1986 and 1989, this disc perfectly complements the one reviewed above: here...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1989

Gerhard Chamber Works

Here is a welcome follow-up to Barcelona 216’s earlier Stradivarius disc of chamber works by Roberto Gerhard (1/98). While the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2003

Brahms Symphony No 3; Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale

We needed a good version of the Schumann work, since Marriner's performance on Capriccio/Target is somewhat featureless and lacking in...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Beethoven (The) Late String Quartets

When I was learning my ‘late’ Beethoven back in the mid-late 1960s, the Amadeus Quartet provided the stereo benchmark, with...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Victoria Requiem

Four excellent modern recordings of this work in the catalogue could seem an embarras de richesses, but the fact is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Giordano Andrea Chenier

This is something of a find – a production produced in Milan’s television studios in 1973 that does more than...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003

Mélodies de la belle époque

Indefatigable even in his 60s, Fischer-Dieskau here adds new items to his vast discography in a field where he has...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1988

Famous Italian Baritones

Only 60 years lie between the birth of Mattia Battistini and that of Giuseppe Taddei, and only 45 between the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, etc

Not many versions of the Symphonie fantastique rival Myung-Whun Chung’s in conveying the nervously impulsive inspiration of a young composer,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1996

Milhaud/Hindemith/Bartok - Chamber Works

It’s good that Hindemith’s magnificent Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1958) has come off the “unaccountably neglected” shelf...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

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