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Bridge String Quartets Nos 2 & 3

Just over five years have elapsed since the appearance of the Brindisi Quartet’s excellent integral cycle of Frank Bridge string...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1997

Schumann Dichterliebe; Six Songs

Now before you laugh, there is at least one distinguished precedent here: tenor Peter Schreier and classical guitarist Konrad Ragossnig’s...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2009

Tcherepnin Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 4

Linking these four otherwise disparate works is Alexander Tcherepnin’s considerable orchestral virtuosity; and disparate they certainly are. In the Second...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2004

Taking Flight Variations by 19 British Composers

Given that concerts consisting of works by more than one composer are not exactly unknown, why not compositions consisting of...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Zygmunt Stojowski

The music of Zygmunt (or Sigismund) Stojowski (1879-1946) is undergoing something of a revival at last. The three-movement Suite (1890-91)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2009

Haydn String Quartets, Opp.54 & 55

Haydn must have meant these six quartets to form a single set, for he wrote them all within a few...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

The main flaws in Rostropovich's historic recording of this opera with Galina Vishnevskaya in the title-role (and by 'historic' I...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1993

Händel Duetti Amorosi

Hot on the heels of Nuria Rial and Lawrence Zazzo teaming up with the Basle Chamber Orchestra and DHM for...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2008

Brahms String Sextet 1; Schubert String Quartet, D703

An attractive feature of this disc is the warm, comfortable, rather dark-brown sound-quality, which suits the Brahms work particularly well....

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Bellini Il Pirata

EMI have for some years now been supplementing their Callas library, the essential volumes of complete operas in inspired...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

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