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Schubert: Works for Piano Duet

Besides the two Rondos in A and D, the three Marches militaires and the F minor Fantasia included by Pires...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1990

Elgar - The HMV Recordings

With the magnificent Elgar Edition now deleted by EMI – three volumes of three discs each – it is good...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2000

Shchedrin Anna Karenina - Complete Ballet

Attempts to ‘translate’ Tolstoy’s psychological masterpiece into other media have had varying degrees of failure: from the truly dismal Garbo...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Bach Cantatas Nos 202 & 206

Helmuth Rilling made his first recording forays into Bach’s secular cantatas and drammae per musicae in the mid to late...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

Alwyn Songs

Three of the four song-cycles on this latest helping of Alwyn from Naxos set words by the Tyneside-born poet Michael...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2008

Grieg & Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas

Though by no means a luminary like Rachmaninov, Grieg was an accomplished pianist known to have been contemplating a second...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1997

Åm SONaR

Although not widely known outside his native country, Magnar Åm is one of Norway’s most distinguished composers, whose output includes...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2009

String Quartets by Apostel and Zemlinsky

The growth of interest in Zemlinsky's music over the past decade or so, which recordings have done much to promote,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1989

Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas

The musical sleight of hand used by these expert players to focus the very different character of each sonata is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2010

Colin Matthews Orchestral Works

Following up the success of the Auracle LP of Colin Matthews's chamber music (AUC1007, 6/86), Unicorn-Kanchana give us the chance...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

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