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Sculthorpe Irkanda IV; Small; String Quartets Nos 6-9

Peter Sculthorpe, 70 this year, has been writing quartets since his student days in Melbourne. These striking works, except No....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/1999

Beethoven Symphony No 5; Sibelius Symphony No 2

I no longer possess a copy of either original but have the Sibelius in a later 1972 LP pressing. The...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1988

Berlioz Harold in Italy; Tristia

Gardiner here follows up his previous Philips Berlioz recordings with the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique – the Symphonie fantastique (6/93)...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1996

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Opp110 & 111

Stephen Kovacevich’s EMI recordings of Beethoven’s last two sonatas (2/04) were marked by their breadth, colour, and improvisatory spirit. These...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2006

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Alexis Weissenberg studied with Wanda Landowska and I recall that some of the 15 sonatas in this varied recital are...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 6/1986

Mozart Violin Concertos (The)

Famous recordings in their day, and still holding their own, though if recorded again today there would doubtless be fewer...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Once described as the greatest of all variation sets, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations are wonderfully mysterious: they reveal their inexhaustible secrets...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1997

Cage Piano Concert/Atlas Eclipticalis

Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra is sometimes mistakenly called a concerto. Nothing could be further from the situation envisaged...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1993

Schubert Symphonies

Frans Bruggen’s Schubert is not out to prove anything, unless it is that the use of period instruments need not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1996

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No3. Etudes Tableaux

Rachmaninov may have once called this ''a concerto for elephants'', but that has not prevented pianists of more modest physique...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

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