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Prokofiev Symphony No 6; Scythian Suite

A state-of-the-art recording of such realism and naturalness that one soon forgets that one is at home and not in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1988

Creston Orchestral Works, Vol.2

The indefatigable Gerard Schwarz continues his invaluable pioneering work on behalf of American music with this second volume of orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994

Bliss Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Now that it no longer matters (if ever it did) whether Arthur Bliss’s Piano Concerto was an absurd anachronism in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2001

R. Strauss/Widor Piano Quartets

The masterpieces for piano quartet can be counted on the fingers of two hands: two by Mozart, one by Schumann,...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 1/1994

Laurent Korcia - Danses

Laurent Korcia is a pretty considerable fiddler. He plays a 1719 Stradivarius with great aplomb and succulent timbre, and he...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2005

Mozart Violin Sonatas

Like the Andras Schiff recording of Mozart piano works issued for the bicentenary (5/92), this disc was recorded in the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1993

Schubert Piano Sonatas

In his illuminating booklet-essay Stephen Hough remarks that Schubert’s individualism, in extreme contrast to Beethoven’s, is ‘a withdrawal into solitude...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999

Warlock (The) Curlew

Peter Warlock is a good composer to be away from for a time. Then when you meet up again the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2007

Hilary Hahn plays Bach

First impressions were very favourable. Baltimore-born Hilary Hahn makes colourful music of the Prelude of the E major Partita, a...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Sibelius Songs

Sibelius’s songs have taken a long time to come in from the cold. After all‚ the few that are relatively...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

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