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Brahms Cello Sonatas

Like the pleasing recording from the young Dutchmen, Pieter Wispelwey and Paul Komen, so this highly accomplished pair opt for...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1997

Philips: Harpsichord works

First I must be honest and confess to a certain prejudice about some (though not all) of the repertory of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/1988

Beethoven Fidelio

As month follows month and more and more live performances appear, our perspective on the purpose of recordings seem to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2004

Tan Dun Tea

Tan Dun, whose first opera, Marco Polo, delved into the enduring mystique of early exploration, approaches another unlikely source: Lu...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 8/2005

Scarlatti, D Salve Regina

Domenico Scarlatti is associated with heaps of harpsichord sonatas and a long career serving the Portuguese princess Maria Barbara (later...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2011

Chopin Études; Nocturnes; Polonaise-Fantaisie

Judging from this 2009 Wigmore Hall recital, the decisive and absorbing interpretative profile that Nelson Goerner brought to his 1997...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2010

Ida Haendel plays Beethoven and Bruch

Huberman’s 1934 performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto provided my first acquaintance with that masterpiece, thanks to the kindness of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1996

Gershwin Porgy and Bess

No more than a footnote need be added to what I wrote last February, when simultaneously with the issue of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1986

Dvorák; Herbert Cello Concertos

Though the name of Victor Herbert is nowadays associated above all with Broadway musicals like Naughty Marietta, Herbert was in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2009

Shostakovich Symphony No 10; Ballet Suite No 4

Karajan's DG account of the Tenth is special. The transported intensity of which he is capable, the very particular palette...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

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