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Dvorák/Suk Orchestral Works

It is ironic that Czechoslovakia's repressive post-war Communist regime should have endowed two special qualities on Talich's late recordings. Owing...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Bartók Orchestral Works

Unvarnished Bartok from source. Kossuth is probably the real selling-point here; it also happens to be the roughest and readiest...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1993

Zimmermann Requiem for a Young Poet

A year after the premiere of his Requiem for a Young Poet in 1969, Bernd Alois Zimmermann took his own...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 3/2009

Mozart/Webern Orchestral Works

To have five of the major orchestral works of Webern as the coupling for the last six Mozart symphonies may...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1993

Field Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

In recent years Field’s concertos have been in the hands of two dedicated compatriots selling at full price. Now along...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1998

Grainger Edition, Vol 10 - Works for Pianos

A real tonic, this, and unexpectedly stimulating, too. We know how effective Grainger’s colourful orchestrations can be, but in her...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Granados Allegro de concierto; Escenas romanticas etc

Granados’s Escenas romanticas is a unique masterpiece, a veiled and ultra-Spanish tribute to the composer’s beloved Chopin (the subtitles, ‘Berceuse’,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2000

Schubert Piano Sonata No 21; Impromptus, D946

“It sometimes seems to me as if I did not belong to this world at all.” These alleged words of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1998

(The) 5 Browns - No Boundaries

The Five Browns are talented, photogenic pianists who all studied at the Juilliard, seem to get along together and, judging...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006

Mozart/Brahms/Debussy Orchestral Works

The name Carl Schuricht is most commonly associated, at least in this country, with the music of Anton Bruckner. Various...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

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