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Mozart Piano Trios

It is good to hear Mozart piano trios on period instruments, but not all is ideal about these performances. I...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1987

Prokofiev Symphony No 5/The Year 1941

Plain and unfussy almost to a fault, this latest Prokofiev Fifth from Theodore Kuchar and the Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1996

Bach Violin Sonatas, BWV1015-17 /20/22

For once eschewing the two­CD ‘complete violin sonatas’ approach‚ this release offers three of the usual sonatas for violin and...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Lortzing Der Wildschütz

It is good to have this cheerful little opera, for many years Lortzing's most popular, back in the British catalogue,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

Brahms String Quartets 1 & 2

We're told that the present Danish Quartet (apparently the third generation to appropriate this title) was formed as recently as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1990

Holmboe String Quartets, Vol 5

Holmboe's Quartets Nos. 13 and 14 were composed back-to-back in 1975, but are as different as chalk and cheese. No....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/1999

Grieg Songs, Vol. 4

The Grieg song edition continues rather as it began––with many causes for gratitude, a few occasions for quite intense pleasure,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Stravinsky: Ballet Suites

Ivan (not to be confused with Adam) Fischer has a sensitive touch. His Petrushka is deft and charming, full of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1991

Hersch Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

Brahms was knocking the big 4-0 when he wrote his first symphony; American composer Michael Hersch is now 35 and...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2007

Wuorinen Music of 2 Decades, Volume 1

Every so often a CD appears which, by means of some interpretative insight, changes our view of a piece of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1996

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