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Schoenberg Orchestral Works

This well-filled disc (for which I have written the English-language notes) offers an unusually comprehensive survey of the essential Schoenberg...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1995

Walton Chamber Works

Even more than the Meridian version of the Piano Quartet with John McCabe the incisive pianist, this one with Hamish...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1992

Berkeley, L & M Orchestral Works

This magnificent series devoted to the two Berkeleys continues, with operas and solo piano music still to come. Three out...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2004

Mozart Serenade; March

There is little music, I think, that offers such unsullied delight as the last two of Mozart's big celebratory serenades,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Mendelssohn; Mozart; Schubert String Quartets

Two years ago the Elias bounded into my musical consciousness with a sensational disc of Mendelssohn quartets. Here was an...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2009

Anne Akiko Meyers - Smile

Here we have a pair of individually planned recitals of violin and piano music, contrasted in style and character. Anne...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2009

Grieg Complete Symphonic Wks Vol 1

The launch of a third new survey of Grieg’s orchestral music in the last decade, following Bjarte Engeset’s for Naxos...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2011

Twilight & Innocence

If you want an hour or so of music ‘ever to seem falling asleep in a half dream’ here it...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Mozart Salzburg Symphonies

This is the second of what will be the three boxes making up Trevor Pinnock's more or less comprehensive cycle...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1995

Grieg; Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

These performances are of rare musical and documentary value. Rubinstein recorded Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto with Stokowski in 1945 but the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1998

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