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Chopin Piano Works

Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s, I've thought him a player of infinite...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992

Corigliano Symphony No. 1 etc.

It is good to have a second view of an ambitious modern symphony which, as I said when reviewing the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1997

Brahms/Mahler Lieder

The 1952 Edinburgh Festival was the first that I attended, and I vividly recall that one of its most engaging...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

Handel St John Passion

For a long time, this setting of the St John Passion was taken to be a work of Handel's youth—written,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1988

Sibelius Orchestral works

This reissue is valuable in including the only available recording of the Op. 66 Scenes historiques, which are, as it...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1985

Gesualdo Quarto Libro di Madrigali, 1596

With two discs released in as many months, the Italian early-music scene has truly got its teeth into Gesualdo. I...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Moriz Rosenthal Piano Recital

Lauded by Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Hanslick, and declared by Goldmark to have ''no equal and no superior among pianists, dead...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989

Kraus, J M Aeneas in Carthage orchestral highlights

“A titanic composition by the standards of any period of musical history,” proclaims Bertil van Boer in his informative booklet-note,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2010

Mozart Sonata in D for Two Pianos K448; Schubert Fantay in F minor D940

The Labèque sisters offer a truly superlative account of the great F minor Fantasy in rich, warm-blooded sound. Rarely has...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008

Liszt B minor Sonata; Schumann Fantasie

A distinctly satisfying coupling, this: “two of the absolute ‘Matterhorns’ of the two composers”, as Lars Vogt himself puts it,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2010

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