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Verdi Nabucco - highlights

These highlights from three fairly recent DG sets reflect the merits or otherwise of the performances as a whole. Although...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1984

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Arnold Whittall has observed that the difference between classicism and romanticism is, in essence, a change of emphasis. Moreover, the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Maderna Oboe Concertos

The oboe was a special instrument for Bruno Maderna, and he filled these three concertos (composed in 1962-3, 1967 and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1994

Prokofiev Works for Cello and Orchestra

These are decent, idiomatic performances, well worth acquiring at the price, though not without flaw. Alexander Rudin (born in 1960)...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Beethoven Septet Op 20. Sextet Op 71

Beethoven came to be irritated by the success of his Septet, and told his publisher that the best that could...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2011

Youthful Rapture Chamber Music of Percy Graigner

Grainger? Chamber Music? was my own first reaction: one which will, I think, be shared by many other listeners. And...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Handel - Amore x Amore

With Handel’s delightful, often dramatic Italian cantatas still among his best-kept secrets, a new disc including three otherwise unavailable on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2010

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Maria Yudina

Her overtly spiritual manner, uncompromising repertoire and refusal to kowtow to authority gave Maria Yudina a saintly aura unique in...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Brahms; Joachim Violin Concertos

An excellent idea to couple the youthful Joseph Joachim's gypsy-style Second Concerto with the Brahms masterpiece that Joachim helped to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2008

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14, 17 and 23

Previously heard largely in off-beat repertoire for Collins and Hyperion, Artur Pizarro now re-emerges on Linn Records with performances of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003

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