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The Musical Landscape

Launched in irrepressible style by Gordon Jacob's sprightly Overture, this beautifully engineered concert presents some exceptionally responsive music-making from the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000

Piotr Anderszewski - Unquiet Traveller

Suitably subtitled “Unquiet Traveller”, this DVD is a dazzling portrait of a pianist rapidly acquiring cult status. For many he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2009

Bruckner Symphony No 3; Busoni: Tanzwalzer, Op 53

Jascha Horenstein was a fine Brucknerian. His 1928 Berlin Philharmonic recording of the Seventh Symphony was a gramophone trail-blazer that...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2007

Haydn: Orchestral Works

This Delos disc is the fourth of a series. In each issue Gerard Schwarz has coupled two Haydn symphonies, one...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1990

Joplin Treemonisha

There is a tragic side to Joplin's only surviving opera, Treemonisha, in spite of its sparkling tunes and, partly, ragtime...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1992

Mendelssohn String Quartets Opp 13, 80 & 81

If any genre of Mendelssohn’s output immediately dismisses the slightly cloying image of boy wonder-turned-romantic hero, it is the string...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007

Berlioz: Orchestral Works

Plasson's version of the Symphonie fantastique is exceedingly vivid and hard-driven, to thrilling effect in much of the first movement....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Richard Strauss conducts Mozart

Strauss enjoyed a great reputation as an interpreter of Mozart, a composer he idolized all his life (though his efforts...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1991

Fauré Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine

Faure began his Requiem in 1885, under the impact of the death of his father, but the work did not...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1984

Couperin: Harpsichord Works

A generation before Rameau, Francois Couperin was without doubt the finest French musical intellectual of his day, not to say...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

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