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Schumann Cello Concerto, Op 129;Symphony No 4, Op 120

Twentieth-century musical tastes have promoted Schumann’s Cello Concerto from the lowly status of shrinking violet to a more appropriate position...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Rarities of Piano Music 2006

The Husum piano festival in Germany is dedicated to unfamiliar keyboard repertoire. Here, where Beethoven is banned and Schubert shunned,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2007

Dennis O'Neill Opera Gala

A good old-fashioned assortment of arias, most of them popular, all of them as generous in melody as in emotion,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

Mendelssohn and Schumann: String Quartets

This is the first of the Cherubini Quartet's projected cycle of the complete string quartets of Mendelssohn and Schumann, two...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1990

Bach Keyboard Works

I share JOCs pleasant surprise at the quality of Martha Argerich's Bach pianism and cannot help wondering why, over eight...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1988

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 and 5

It would almost be worth acquiring these two discs for the conducting. Not having heard Mackerras direct these concertos before,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2009

Carissimi; Colista; Frescobaldi Choral Works

Of these four recordings, the oldest, made in the early 1970s, presents the most varied portrait of Carissimi. Although the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2003

Bayer (The) Fairy Doll; Sun and Earth

Franz Schmidt, once a cellist in the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, was scathing about the talents of Josef Bayer, ballet...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2004

Gershwin Works for Piano & Orchestra

Anyone who can shape Rachmaninov with Shelley's instinctive feeling for those subtle internal rubatos has to be a natural for...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1993

Bach; Shostakovich Fugue

Onyx Brass’s spaciously recorded recital of Bach and Shostakovich fugues provides an unusual juxtaposition of a celebrated master-apprenticeship separated by...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2008

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