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Schumann Piano Concerto & Piano Quintet

It makes an unusual and apt coupling to have the Schumann Piano Concerto alongside the most powerful of his chamber...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000

Brahms String Quartet No 1; Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

If only Brahms and Schoenberg had really met, rather than through the tenuous agency of Zemlinsky. “That’s how it’s done,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 9/2011

Rachmaninov from Ampico Piano Rolls

Over the past 20 years or so I have followed the release of piano-roll material on disc with great interest....

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1990

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Shura Cherkassky,Vol 2

Listening to Shura Cherkassky and Leopold Ludwig perform the Tchaikovsky First Concerto is rather like watching the squire's mischievous son...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2000

Debussy: Orchestral Works

From Haitink comes another marvellous Debussy CD to put alongside his much praised coupling of Jeux and Nocturnes (Philips CD...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1987

Bach Goldberg Variations

At last, thank heaven, the Goldberg Variations are ceasing to be regarded as a recherche intellectual exercise by the ''old...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995

Michael Haydn Part Songs

This vocal group with the terrible word-play for a name consists of former Munich music students who started out with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1997

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

This is the first version of Lucia to appear on CD, and very welcome it is. Those who have the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1985

Voyage

This is a particularly fine collection of song-cycles, very beautifully sung by Martina Janková, who has a wonderfully free, sweet...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2011

Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - American Songs

The repertory for basses in solo song recitals is limited – one recalls, for instance, Boris Christoff’s magnificent but gloom-laden...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1997

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