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Beethoven Symphonies

As with Sawallisch's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 (12/92), it isn't hard to find things to admire. Again the recordings...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1993

Schumann Fantasie; Kreisleriana; Romances

Andrea Kauten is a Hungarian-Swiss pianist who, according to Sony's fulsome notes, wishes everyone could be filled with her passion...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2007

Scarlatti 21 Keyboard Sonatas

Was it The Sound of Music that started it off? Some years later that ever-popular ''The Sound of King's'' appeared;...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/1988

(The) World 's First Piano Concertos

‘The World’s First Piano Concertos’ – it’s a slightly silly claim: certainly some of these are among the earliest piano...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/2003

Nielsen Violin, Flute and Clarinet Concertos

For those on a limited budget, this outstandingly generous Naxos anthology will prove a pretty irresistible purchase, I fancy, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2000

Schulhoff Concertos and Piano Music

The current Gramophone Classical Catalogue contains little competition for this generous introduction to the fashionable, Roaring Twenties aspect of Schulhoff's...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Gossec (Le) Triomphe de la République

After the events of 1789, François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) became an ardent musical icon of the revolution: Le Triomphe de la...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2006

Scriabin Symphony No 2; Tchaikovsky Hamlet

''Help! Where can one hide from such music?'' Thus wrote Liadov about Scriabin's Second Symphony, and he was entrusted with...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1990

Debussy Images; Nocturnes

In August 1980 these forces recorded for Decca a version of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe that has, justifiably, acquired classic...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1990

Dvorák Requiem

The present version of Dvorak’s Requiem has undergone various transformations, from the original issue in a handsomely boxed set of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

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