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Liszt Années de pèlerinage - Suisse

It’s clear that Stephen Hough has technically and spiritually digested the first book of Années de pèlerinage to the extent...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2005

McEwen String Quartets Volume 2

This is the fourth disc in Chandos’s enterprising series devoted to Sir John Blackwood McEwen’s chamber and instrumental music. A...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2003

Lieder and Song Recital

Sometimes a recording comes along that puts in the shade all recent listening. Such a one is Schreier's latest account...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Forqueray Pièces de clavecin

The harpsichord transcriptions of the Forquerays' pieces de viole are always immediately recognizable by their low tessitura and dense textures,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Mozart Works for Flute & Orchestra

An exquisite work composed when Mozart was in Paris in the late 1770s, the Concerto for flute and harp is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1989

Rosenfeld Kniefall in Warschau

Political visits abroad suggest that Atonement in Warsaw (1997), based on the life of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Naumann Masses

Naumann’s principal claim to fame nowadays is his Swedish opera Gustaf Wasa (available on Virgin, 3/96). Here, a distinguished cast...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1998

Mozart Violin Concertos

Szymon Goldberg was a Polish-born pupil of Carl Flesch, who became leader of Furtwangler's Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the age...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Sibelius Symphonies 2 & 4

With over 50 Sibelius Seconds in the catalogue, and three dozen of the Fourth, any newcomer has to work overtime...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Brahms: Piano Pieces

Bishop-Kovacevich is up against two Leeds prize-winners and a late-lamented artist whose Brahms has held its place in the catalogue...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1985

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