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Schubert Impromptus

Smash and grab Schubert with little sense of phrasing (D899 No. 1), cantabile lines (D899 No. 3) or dynamic subtleties...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/1998

Parry/Stanford Piano Concertos

Here are excellent premiere recordings of two of the most ambitious British piano concertos from the second half of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1996

Karamanov Symphony 3 & Piano Concerto 3

Not surprisingly the symphony is a good deal more conventional than its recently recorded successors from the late 1970s which...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Graupner Chamber Works

Composer overruled; in the cantata, a recorder has been substituted for his prescribed obbligato instrument, the oboe. Reasons are not...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2003

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6; Serenade for Strings

This completes an RPO trio of Tchaikovsky symphonies under music director Daniele Gatti. If the opening Adagio seems rather staid,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2006

Biber Rosary Sonatas

Biber’s Rosary or Mystery Sonatas are based on a series of episodes in the life of the Virgin, used as...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2009

Mahler Symphony No 2

Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony has become a somewhat elusive work of late. Is this down to a lack of belief in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2006

Shostakovich Symphony No 4; Britten Russian Funeral

This could just be the most important Western recording of the Fourth since the long-deleted Ormandy and Previn versions (CBS,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

A. Merikanto Orchestral Works

Aarre Merikanto’s career divided broadly into three phases, those of apprentice, radical and conservative, and there are works from each...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Brahms Symphonies Nos 1-4

Vladimir Fedoseyev is one of the elder statesmen of the Russian musical scene, so it comes as no surprise that...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2008

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