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Guitar Works

It has been unhelpful to South American composers that the widespread view of them has been as writers of colourful...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1987

Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Thought-provoking interpretations of great dedication and intelligence. If Haitink’s deeply felt conception of A Pastoral Symphony is the most daringly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1998

Schubert Piano Trios

Other groups, including Serkin and Adolf and Hermann Busch in their famous 1935 recording (part of a two-disc set), have...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1995

Bach; Bartók; Ysaÿe Solo Violin Works

The Latvian violinist Baiba Skride won the 2001 Queen Elizabeth competition in Brussels. Surprisingly, this is her first solo recording,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2006

Dvorák Symphonies

One is always a little suspicious when a recording makes its debut after having spent a number of years ‘in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Brahms Violin Sonatas

Boris Belkin and Michel Dalberto bring an aristocratic quality to Brahms’s three violin sonatas. However, they offer more power than...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1996

German Baroque Songs

Annette Dasch is a young German soprano who is picking off the formative stage-posts of professional opportunity with a special...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2005

Schubert Arpeggione Sonata; Schumann Kinderszenen

Comparing the “excellent” 1993 Fuzeau facsimile edition of the Arpeggione Sonata with modern Urtext editions has, writes Henning Kraggerud, “been...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 1/2011

Mahler Symphony No 3

Regular Gramophone readers may remember the late Michael Oliver complaining of an ‘insane over-production’ of recordings of Shostakovich’s Fifth. What...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2003

British Light Music Premieres

Dutton has taken up with alacrity continuation of the British light music recordings previously on the White Line label. The...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2007

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