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Schubert Piano Sonatas D664 & D537; German Dances

When we come to look back over it, agreement will be widespread, I’ve no doubt, that Uchida’s has amounted to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 1/2003

Verdi Aida

I had been looking forward to rehearing this well-known set, expecting it to be a strong rival on CD to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1987

Schubert String Quartets

Both quartets have been reissued in LP form on World Records and EMI Treasury. The D minor (Death and the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1989

Vaughan Williams London Symphony/Tallis Fantasia

It does not need a superlative performance under a foreign conductor to convince me that A London Symphony is a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Suddenly, and not before time, the Sixth Symphony of Bruckner is riding high. And deservedly so since it is the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1991

Strauss Capriccio

What a wonderful piece is Strauss’s operatic swansong. In this inspired Conversation Piece he makes us forget the variously flawed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2000

Schubert Winterreise

One of the very first complete recordings of Winterreise was by a woman. After Lotte Lehmann’s pioneering performance in the...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1998

Bach Goldberg Variations

Barenboim's annotation explains his approach to the Goldberg Variations; my eyebrows have not travelled so far north since I heard...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1990

Arrau plays Chopin and Schumann

Twenty-one years separate Arrau's pre-war recording of Schumann's Carnaval and his formidable account of Chopin's B minor Sonata, recorded in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1991

Bach Partitas and Sonata for Solo Violin, Vol 1

Hitherto we have heard Rachel Podger only in early chamber works and as Andrew Manze’s partner in Bach double concertos...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1999

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