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Rózsa/Schurmann Cello Concertos

Premiered in 1969 by Janos Starker, Miklos Rozsa’s Cello Concerto is a substantial, concentrated and (above all) superbly accomplished creation....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Grechaninov Piano Trios

Composed in 1906, Grechaninov’s First Piano Trio is a typical product of Russia’s ‘Silver Age’: typical in its expert, school-of-Rimsky...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Fauré Piano Works

I had not heard Kun Woo Paik play Fauré before‚ and could not help noticing before I began listening that...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Wilhelm Kempff plays Chopin, Vol. 1

Kempff was already almost 63 when recording these works some 33 years before he died. With his essentially Germanic musical...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1997

Beethoven & Mendelssohn String Quintets

More proof—and it seems it's still needed—that the best place to go hunting for neglected masterworks is amongst the works...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

With both these new issues of Tchaikovsky's Fourth the fill-ups, valuable and unexpected, are a prime consideration, particularly in relation...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

Vanhal Masses

While Johann Baptist Vanhal’s eminence among Viennese composers of the classical period has always ensured a steady trickle of recordings...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

The generous and attractive coupling of the Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos is surprisingly rare. Historic recordings by Menuhin, Szigeti, Milstein...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1998

Slavonic Orchestral Works

On this showing the Hungarian National Philharmonic are certainly an enthusiastic, even boisterous lot; standards of ensemble and intonation are...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1993

Holst (The) Planets

The sleeve promises a ‘memorable audiovisual experience’ featuring ‘spectacular images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005

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