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Bryars String Quartets

A quiet strain of melancholy passes through all three of Gavin Bryars’ string quartets‚ though the Third and latest –...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio

As a glance at the above will show, this is not the old Beaux Arts version, for whose restoration I...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1989

Katharina Wolpa plays Beethoven, Schubert and Berg

Wolpe’s cool unfolding of Berg’s dauntingly concentrated Piano Sonata has its merits, though her playing is not notable for finesse...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999

Stoker Vocal Works and Piano Duos

These works date from between 1968 and 1998, written by a professor of composition in that period and sounding so....

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Britten Orchestral Works

I haven't enjoyed Britten's endlessly resourceful Young Person's Guide so much in ages. Both Slatkin and Hickox turn in strikingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Elgar Violin Concerto; Chausson Poème

It is thanks to the enterprise of violinist Philippe Graffin that we now have this premiere recording of the Elgar...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006

Gershwin Porgy and Bess

The Gershwins would doubtless have been flattered that so iconic a figure as Nikolaus Harnoncourt had taken up Porgy and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2010

Weill Street Scene

When, in 1989, Scottish Opera and English National Opera shared a production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene, two separate complete...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1991

Rossini La Pietra del Paragone

Here is a CD reissue of a little known LP recording (never generally obtainable in the UK) that should gladden...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Schwarzkopf sings Bach & Mozart

In the early and middle years of her career, Schwarzkopf was a Bach singer of brilliance and sensibility. What is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2000

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