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Richter The Authorised Recordings: Bach

The Richter Edition comprises 21 discs in nine separate slipcased sets. Although the edition is initially only available in its...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Brahms Concertos

Supraphon's slim-line CD double-pack features an adequately recorded live concert from the 1992 Prague Spring Festival, complete with applause. However,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Bloody Amateurs

This is not so much a CD with an accompanying booklet as the reverse: a hardbound book, disc mounted in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2003

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle continues with an account of the First Symphony that appreciates both its mischief and its soulfulness. Superbly...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011

Gidon Kremer/Edition Lockenhaus, Vol. 3

I wonder if any reviewer will be able to resist quoting from Valery Afanassiev's own sleevenote. Not I. After a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Rossini String Sonatas, Volume 2

These genial works by a gifted 12-year-old receive warm performances from Chailly. However, my first impression proved a lasting one,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1994

Bruckner Symphony No 4

These performances made a favourable impression when I reviewed the LP in 1985 The coupling of Telemann's Concerto in E...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1988

Schumann Piano Works

Avie’s two-CD album celebrates a richly inclusive cross-section ranging from Schumann’s Opp 2 to 82, from early ardour to later...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2004

Janácek String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2. Berg Lyric Suite

The Juilliards’ performance of Berg’s Lyric Suite is virtuoso in the fullest sense – in the control of every detail...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996

Fiorillo & Viotti Violin Concertos

These are unfamiliar works and I fear that to me at least they will probably stay that way. Mind you,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1987

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