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Schubert Complete Lieder, Volume 36

Most of the material on this volume is not first-rate Schubert, but the performances certainly are; indeed, they’re superb, by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000

Beethoven Symphony No 9

Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony serve up a spiffy yet sober account of Beethoven’s Choral Symphony. Repeats in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2003

Mozart Orchestral works

The attractions of this disc relate entirely to the two Zimmermanns in the Sinfonia concertante. Though not of the same...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 5

'Op. 1' and 'Op. posth.' says a lot about Balakirev's two piano concertos. The First is a single movement only,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Weber Clarinet Quintet; Grand Duo Concertant; Variations on a theme of Silvana

In his note to this record‚ Pierre Barbier comments that the Grand duo concertant ‘can be understood as a concerto...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) - III

This, the latest instalment in Preiser’s Pinza edition (Vol. 1 was reviewed in 3/92) is made up of some of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997

Dvorák/Schumann/Mendelssohn Lieder

The duets are the most successful of the performances here, occasioning a regret that the programme had not been what...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

British Orchestral Works

Grant Llewellyn's Butterworth is a model of sensitivity and poise. To be truthful, I don't think I've ever heard the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1993

Beethoven/Haydn Piano Concertos

Beethoven composed his Fourth Piano Concerto between late 1805 and early 1806. There was a private performance of the work...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Schubert Octet

“I feel myself to be the unhappiest, most wretched creature in the world.” Thus, on March 31st, 1824, Schubert wrote...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

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