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Theme and Variations II

Apart from Clara Schumann, who (perhaps understandably) had little use for anything growing from the Ernestine von Fricken episode in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992

Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 6

In February’s Gramophone, Rob Cowan remarked that ‘the prospect of actually listening to Beethoven never loses appeal’. It doesn’t for...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2003

Wolf Mörike Lieder

Just to hear again Wolf’s masterful settings of Mörike’s beautiful poetry is a source of enormous pleasure: seldom has a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2005

Hasse Chamber Works

Johann Adolf Hasse was one of the late- Baroque’s shining lights, celebrated as perhaps one of the half-a-dozen leading composers...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2004

Glazunov: Concertos

In the age of CD there is an obvious problem with concertos of the length and unconventional shape that Glazunov...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1990

Liszt/Wagner/Berlioz Romantic Songs

An enterprising programme introduces us to Hampson the scholar as well as the singer. In a long introductory note, of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Moross Frankie and Johnny etc

There has been a gap of several years between this disc and JoAnn Falletta’s first concert of Moross orchestral works...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 5/1997

Fauré Piano Works, Vol. 4

Faure's Preludes are among the subtlest and most elusive piano pieces in existence, they express deep but mingled emotions, sometimes...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1988

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 5

It was during Osmo Vänskä’s time with the BBC Scottish SO that his Beethoven began winning golden opinions. There was...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2005

Tchaikovsky Syms; Concertos; Ballet suites

Karajan was unquestionably a great Tchaikovsky conductor. Yet although he recorded the last three symphonies many times, he did not...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000

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