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Bach (6) Harpsichord Partitas

Masaaki Suzuki joins a well-trammelled path of harpsichordists who have attempted to elucidate Bach’s exhaustive imagination in these six Titans....

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2003

Koloman Von Pataky

Brahms was enchanted by Schubert’s unfinished Easter cantata Lazarus when he came across the manuscript score in 1863; and in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1997

Walton Façade

Enterprisingly the new Discover International label here offers the most complete version of Walton's entertainment yet, using a group of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1994

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1; Romance

Between 1918 and his death two years later, the octogenarian Bruch, in a final burst of creativity, wrote two string...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2011

Schubert; Schumann Works for Cello and Piano

As one listens to this engaging recital, with its excellent sound, it's difficult to remember that only one work, Schumann's...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2007

Magdalena Kozena sings Handel Arias

With most items familiar from previous Handel aria anthologies, on paper this looks full of tired clichés. Thankfully, the stirring...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2007

Poulenc/Szymanowski Stabat Mater

This is beautiful choral singing, finely poised and balanced, and although Robert Shaw is famous above all as a choral...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Kreisler: Violin & Piano Works, Vol.1

Kreisler has been a hero to Shumsky, as to very many other violinists, for all his life. This record is...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Hear, O Heav'ns

This is a compilation that looks good on paper but works less well in performance. The idea of taking the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Hommage à Chopin

Chopin’s contemporaries were wary of paying him tribute, fearing his waspish tongue and sensing their inadequacy before such unnerving genius....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2010

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