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Tchaikovsky/Sibelius Violin Concertos

Compared with many Philadelphia recordings of the late seventies this one is warm and natural, with Perlman not so closely...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Schubert String Quartet, D887

In his last and greatest string quartet Schubert seems to have set out, like Mahler, to contain the world. In...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989

Busoni Turandot

Just when you've given up hope of hearing a recording of Busoni's opera Turandot on disc what happens—two come along...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1993

Glinka - Chamber Music

The Music in St Petersburg series is turning up some interesting pieces, as well as contributing to the picture of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1999

Sibelius Symphonies 4 & 5

Here's a spirited pair of performances from the Iceland SO under its intelligent young Finnish chief. In the first and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000

Orff Carmina burana

In spite of the unfortunate sleeve design—shades of a Hollywood promotion and voluptuous in a cinematic way—Slatkin's is a very...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1995

Bach Concertos BWV971, 973, 974, 975 and 978

Forget about Bach in period costume, so to speak. Alexandre Tharaud offers unashamedly full-blooded pianism, using a Steinway Model D,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2005

Mendelssohn Piano Works, Vol. 4

He “liked it very much”, so wrote the 12-year-old Mendelssohn after introducing his recently completed G minor Sonata to the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 4

Wand's second recording of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony and Dohnanyi's first bring no particular surprises from the interpretative point of view...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1991

Beethoven Piano Trios 5 & 7

Newcomers to the English catalogue, the Mirecourt Trio are artists-in-residence at Grinnell College, Iowa, as well as busy concert-givers, with...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

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