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Beethoven String Quartets

They are integrated yet individual, four musicians each outstanding but not standing out as such. The internal balance of the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2010

Brahms Symphony No 1

Previously unpublished, this recording qualifies under house rules for consideration alongside some selected comparisons. If I append none it is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985

Dvorák Orchestral Works

Tuckwell's New World is very well played and the digital recording is bright, well balanced and clear. The Largo is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987

Liszt Parcours Satanique

Muza Rubackyte’s recital, entitled ‘Parcours Satanique’, runs into direct competition with Earl Wild’s legendary Vanguard disc, ‘The Daemonic Liszt’ (2/92)....

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Spohr Double Quartets

After the pairing of Spohr's first two double quartets on Hyperion (A66141, 5/86), here is the companion record of the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1986

The Tchaikovsky Experience

If in recent times there has been a more beautiful or subtler account of the Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997

Britten Double Concerto

An unusually absorbing Britten release, containing no less than three world-premiere recordings. The most striking discovery here has to be...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999

Four American Quartets

No masterpieces here but a pleasant enough collection. I found Bernard Herrmann’s Echoes.the most intriguing. He always wanted to be...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2008

Viva! Rodrigo

Recording yet another version of one of the most popular concertos of all time isn't without risk; better, then, to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 5/2008

American Twentieth-Century Piano Music

A most absorbing programme, compellingly performed. The Barber, of course, is an excellent benchmark for the talents of any pianist...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1989

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