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Sandström & Stenhammar String Quartets

An imaginative and well-realized coupling. Stenhammar’s Sixth Quartet is a model of formal economy and understated eloquence. The Sandstrom is...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1998

Mozart Gran Partita

There are already numerous excellent recordings of this work, and here's another, which for sheer technical accomplishment is at least...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1993

Schoenberg Chamber Works

Eighteen years after their first issue, these Schoenberg performances by the London Sinfonietta remain hard to beat. The reason is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1992

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons is not the most obviously suitable repertoire for the Vienna Philharmonic, normally playing with at least four...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

McCabe Chamber Works

The renegade composers of Bang on a Can have been quietly growing up. Even David Lang, the ‘brattiest’ of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2003

Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart Music for Horn

This is a disc guaranteed to make the listener fall in love with the ripe, fruity, often tangy tone of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1999

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1

In Jirí Belohlávek’s previous disc of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto (Supraphon), he provided his fluent and poetic soloist Ivan Moravec...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2008

Kurtág Kafka Fragments

Kafka Fragments (1986) is the largest of György Kurtág’s song-cycles, and typical of this most inscrutable yet communicative living...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2009

Dvorák Cello Concerto; Symphonic Variations

Dutch firm Channel Classics has been stepping in where major internationals are being cautious – recording the central repertoire. Here...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007

Yu Qiang Dai sings Opera Arias

We are getting used to the idea that the best ‘Italian’ tenors may now come from Latin America; perhaps before...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2004

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