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Saint-Saens Piano Quartets

Saint-Saëns is so well known nowadays for his symphonies, concertos and orchestral works that it is easy to overlook his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2009

Verdi Il Trovatore

This set was first issued at about the same time as the now-legendary Callas/Karajan version (EMI), and suffered in comparison—as,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989

Schubert Lieder

Here's another recommendable version of Die schone Mullerin to add to those already in the catalogue. For many years it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Schumann Piano Quintet

For Schumann there were ‘no half measures in Bach; everything was written for all time’. Composed in 1845, his Op...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2006

Sibelius Symphony No 5

Having hugely enjoyed the stimulating first instalment in Sakari Oramo’s new Sibelius symphony cycle with the CBSO for Erato (Nos...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Boito Mefistofele

All the currently available recordings of Mefistofele have at least one major flaw. Oliviero de Fabritiis's sensitive account occupies three...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1994

Shchedrin Cello Sonata; Ancient Melodies of Russian Folk Song

Having set down Shchedrin’s Parabola concertante with the Southbank Sinfonia (9/08), Raphael Wallfisch here teams up with the veteran composer-pianist...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2009

Female Fates and Fortunes

Randi Stene’s engaging recital serves as a showcase for Nordic song as much as for her own attractive and flexible...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998

Stainer (The) Crucifixion

Among the many reforms and amelioration of standards Stainer brought to cathedral music was a recommendation of bigger choirs to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 2/2010

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6, 'Requiem for Fanny'; String Quintet No 2

Had I not encountered the blistering recent disc from the Elias Quartet, the Canadian-based Alcan Quartet’s account of Mendelssohn’s final...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007

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