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Mozart (The) Complete Sonatas and Variations

What constitutes ‘complete’ usually differs from one budget Mozart piano music box set to the next, as these two boxes...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2006

Brahms/R. Strauss Violin Sonatas

Rosen's strong-toned, firmly underpinned, essentially masculine readings are in a world apart from the self-indulgently elasticated Chopin often heard from...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1991

Schubert: Piano Works

These were some of Ashkenazy's earliest undertakings for Decca, and they immediately explain that company's faith in him. The A...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1990

Miaskovsky Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

The Hungarian Endre Hegedus here completes his Miaskovsky cycle; Murray McLachlan has meanwhile completed his for Olympia with the last...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Rossini (Il) Turco in Italia

This beautifully shot television film of a live Genoese performance of Il turco in Italia is a memorial tribute to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2010

Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel

Johannes Felsenstein’s production of this favourite fairy-tale opera presents it with every sinister element removed. In Stefan Rieckhoff’s sets and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2009

Castelnuovo-Tedesco Naomi and Ruth; Sacred Service

The inaugural releases of American-Jewish classics from Naxos and the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music embrace both the sacred...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 12/2003

Haydn Paukenmesse

Bernstein in Haydn is always compelling. I seem to remember that no less an authority than H. C. Robbins Landon...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1986

Zelenka Trio Sonatas, Vol.1

Zelenka's six sonatas for two oboes, bassoon and continuo are among the most rewarding and at times most difficult pieces...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994

Japanese Orchestral Favourites

Western listeners who are aware of Japanese music mainly through the subtle calligraphies of Toru Takemitsu will be intrigued by...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

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