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Sibelius String Quartets

Voces intimae, the quartet Sibelius composed in Paris and London during 1908-09, is not his only essay in the medium....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985

Wagner (Die) Walküre

This performance derives from a new production at last summer’s Munich Festival. The late Herbert Wernicke, who had earlier been...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2003

Schubert/Schumann Piano Works

Some readers may have already heard and seen this Kinderszenen, for it comes from a recital given by the 83-year-old...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1991

Franck Symphony/Mendelssohn Symphony 5

This CD preserves a phenomenon: a “Living Legend” (to borrow from BMG’s current Maazel puffery) in the making. Appreciative insert-notes...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1996

Ferenc Fricsay - A life in music

It’s good to see Ferenc Fricsay’s star in the ascendant once again. Like EMI Classics/IMG Artists’ Gramophone Award-winning Great Conductors...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2003

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto No 1

These are stimulating versions of two favourite concertos, which take a fresh interpretative approach, particularly so in the case of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2004

Ives Symphony No 1; Emerson Concerto

Anyone who knows the first movement of Ives’s Concord Piano Sonata will be fascinated to hear its themes in a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2003

Shostakovich Symphonies

With its glacial opening Largo, driving scherzo and near-manic finale, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony is notoriously difficult to pace and characterize—it...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Langgaard Symphony No 1

Not many 17-year-olds could pen a coherent hour-long symphony (even Jay Greenberg might struggle), still less see it triumphantly premiered...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2008

Koppel, HD Chamber Works

Herman D Koppel forms an important bridge in Danish music from the style of Carl Nielsen (whose attention was attracted...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2003

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