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Chopin Piano Concerto No 2; Piano Works

Rubinstein remains the most elegant and life-affirming of all great Chopin pianists, his patrician ease and stylistic distinction the envy...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002

Bartók & Moret Violin Concertos

To recapitulate: ES made a direct comparison of Midori (Sony Classical) and Chung (Decca, a re-release of a 1978 original...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Mozart Mass No 4; Benedictus

Here, perhaps surprisingly, comes yet a third version of Mozart's Waisenhausmesse, or ''Orphanage Mass'', so called because it is thought...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1990

Gesualdo Madrigals, Book 5

With their two latest discs, the Kassiopeia Quintet conclude a valuable intégrale of the notorious Prince of Venosa’s madrigals. If...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2009

Schubert Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

This period performance of two early Schubert symphonies—the more ambitious C minor work, the Tragic, as well as No. 1—boasts...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1990

Shostakovich Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2; (7) Romances, Op 127

It would be nice to report that with Daniel Hope as violinist since 2002, the name of the Beaux Arts...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2006

Backhaus plays Brahms, Chopin & Liszt

Nalen Anthoni’s perceptive appraisal of Wilhelm Backhaus’s art in ICRC (Summer 1997) quotes Abram Chasins who, in his...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Bowen Piano Works, Vol 4

Joop Celis’s survey (or is it now a cycle?) of York Bowen’s solo piano works remains consistent in the quality...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2010

Stravinsky Pulcinella; Jeu de Cartes

Abbado conducts Pulcinella with a good deal of vigour, persuading his smallish group from the LSO to some very adroit,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Maciejewski Requiem

It's hard to describe a virtually unknown composer's style without falling back on comparisons. So who does Roman Maciejewski's Requiem...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1990

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