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Beethoven String Quartets 10 & 11

Continuing their Beethoven cycle, the Medici have now reached Opp. 74 and 95, a favourite coupling in the days of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1990

Grainger Edition, Vol 13

Of the four items here for cello and piano (all arranged for Grainger’s close friend, the Danish cellist/composer Herman Sandby)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1999

Bartók plays Bartók

This new recital from Gustav Leonhardt is by way of a tribute to the great French bass viol virtuoso at...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

Chopin (4) Ballades; Fantasie; Polonaise-Fantasie

Vladimir Feltsman first came to prominence during the 1980s when, after a painfully delayed release from Russia, he arrived in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2010

Humoresque - Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg

Fannie Hurst’s 1923 play, Humoresque, is a story about a poor New York Jewish boy who becomes a successful concert...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1998

Works for string orchestra

Horses for courses, you might say: I Musici's suave string tone is perfectly suited to this programme of mainly romantic...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1987

Rachmaninov Corelli Variations; Piano Transcriptions

Russian-born Olga Kern won first prize in both the Pinerolo (1990) and Van Cliburn Competitions (2001), where her playing of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2004

Mozart Piano Trios

Like the Beaux Arts Trio before them, the Borodin play the five trios written by Mozart between 1786–8, at the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Coates, D; Moeran Violin Concertos

It continues to baffle me why performances and recordings of Moeran’s gorgeous Violin Concerto are so thin on the ground....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2006

Sweeter than Roses

Catherine Bott is the doyenne of only a select group of modern singers who seem unequivocally and repeatedly to relish...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1996

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