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Sor Exercises, Op. 35. Pièces de Société, Op. 33

Segovia once described Sor as “garrulous”, a label better suited to Giuliani, of whose more copious output he recorded very...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1998

Beethoven/Brahms Violin Sonatas

Two sonatas in A major—and why not, when they are both masterpieces? The slow unaccompanied opening of the Kreutzer already...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Haydn String Quartet, Op.51

The difference in timing fairly leaps off the page—20 minutes! It's partly explained by the Tatrai's omission of the exposition...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990

Górecki String Quartet No 3

Górecki’s Third String Quartet has waited for more than 10 years to be recorded. It was requested in 1992 by...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2007

Fasch Cantatas

Gleaned from recording sessions spanning six years between 1995 and 2001, the work of Johann Friederich Fasch (1688-1758) represents the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2002

Tchaikovsky Piano Works

Tchaikovsky's most recent and scholarly biographer, David Brown (Tchaikovsky—The crisis years, 1874-1878; Gollancz: 1982), states bluntly that the Piano Sonata...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 2/1988

R. Strauss Tone Poems

For most of the Nazi period, Karl Bohm was based in Dresden where his apparent political acceptability enabled him to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

3 Leg Torso

3 Leg Torso’s line-up gives them the flexibility to incorporate a range of gipsy and kletzmer references into some evocative...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1998

Lindsay Quartet - 25 Years

Let me start by declaring an interest: I have been an admirer of the Lindsay Quartet since long before I...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

Schumann/Shostakovich Violin Concertos

Gidon Kremer, instead of coupling the Shostakovich Second Concerto with its natural partner, No. 1, enterprisingly chooses a concerto which...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1994

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