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Schubert Trout Quintet/Arpeggione Sonata

Writing within the context of Sony’s CD booklet, Mark Salzman poses the question: “If basketball can have its Dream Team...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Brahms String Sextet No.2

The Amadeus Quartet planned to celebrate their 40th anniversary last October at a special recital as part of the Semaine...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Erna Berger - 3 Song Recitals

Erna Berger was a singer so dedicated to her art that the cares and problems of the war years were...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

British Light Music

How bewildering the ways of fashion! A few years back a collection such as this would, if it had appeared...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1998

Kabalevsky Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

Unsurprisingly for a student piece, the first of Kabalevsky’s three piano concertos is a talented blend of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2006

Schoeck Notturno

Like his slightly younger compatriot Frank Martin, Othmar Schoeck enjoys the allegiance of the few rather than the acclaim of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1986

Poulenc Piano Works, Vol 2

‘A soupcon of Schubert, a sprinkling of Stravinsky, a generous helping of Chopin, a dash of Schumann, a sprig of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1999

Franck: Orchestral Works

Precisely what Cesar Franck meant by the lento and allegro moderato that alternate in the first movement of the Symphony...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Brahms (The) Complete Symphonies

Semyon Bychkov has been gathering golden opinions of late, both for the clarity and lucidity of his Strauss conducting and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2005

Chopin & Scriabin: Piano Works

Instead of coupling Chopin's B minor Sonata with its predecessor in B flat minor, like the majority of her rivals...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1989

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