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Ravel: Music for Two Pianos

I gave a warm welcome to the debut recording by Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott (LDR/Gamut (CD) LDRCD1009, 1/90), an...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Mahler Symphony No 8

Antoni Wit completes his Mahler cycle for Naxos with the Eighth Symphony in an aptly celebratory interpretation – one that...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 9/2006

Bach Keyboard Works

That Pogorelich loves the music of Bach is not to be doubted, in fact he can't get too much of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1986

Brahms Chamber Works (orchestrated)

This is the sixth recording of Schoenberg's Brahms orchestration to be issued since Simon Rattle's (EMI, 6/86). If only Schoenberg's...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1993

Bruckner SYmphony No 4

For many years, Bruckner's so-called Romantic Symphony was the most frequently performed and recorded of all his symphonic works. Happily,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1991

Handel Violin Sonatas

Compose violin sonatas, and you can guarantee that someone somewhere will want to lavish affections on them—even if, as here,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Mendelssohn Symphonies

With busy, resonant sound and a predilection for slower-than-usual tempos, Reinhard Seifried’s Mendelssohn harks back to Schubertian and Beethovenian models...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Prokofiev Ivan the Terrible

Israel Nestyev's biography of Prokofiev (Oxford University Press)—still, for all its propagandizing, the most comprehensive we have—regrets that his music...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985

Kiri te Kanawa Song Recital

Somewhere in the world's book of fairy stories there must be one about the girl who is ushered into the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Charpentier Louise

The charms of La vie parisienne, Manon and La boheme notwithstanding, Louise is the essential opera set in, and about,...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1994

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