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Beethoven Middle Period Quartets

Let me say straight away that the Tokyo Quartet's set of the middle-period quartets is among the most impressive to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1992

Patti & Maurel - Complete Recordings

‘He was nearly sixty!’ we used to say in awed tones when we ourselves were nearly 20. About her, ‘nearly...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Bach (The) Well-Tempered Clavier II

More than a decade has lapsed between instalments of Masaaki Suzuki’s Well-Tempered Clavier. However, Book 2 was worth the wait....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2009

El Delfín de Música - Works by Luys de Narváez

The most recent disc from the Musical Heritage of Andalusia series produced by the Junta de Andalucia on the Almaviva...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1996

Beethoven: Piano Concertos and Choral Fantasia

To fit Beethoven's five piano concertos and the Choral Fantasia on to three LPs with no turnovers within or between...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1986

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas Nos 1-5

This first volume of Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas (10 if you include a final fragment) takes us up to No...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2011

Prokofiev: Orchestral Works

The little solos which introduce the characters in Peter and the Wolf do not augur well here—some of the woodwind...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Mozart Piano Works

This record is about a painful search for equanimity of spirit; it articulates the toll that such a search exacts,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1984

Berg; Schoenberg; Webern String Quartets

In both these recordings of Berg’s Lyric Suite, there’s no mistaking the players’ relish for the technical and expressive challenges...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2007

Beethoven Irish, Welsh and Scottish Songs

With 140 to choose from‚ here is an excellent selection of Beethoven’s folksong arrangements‚ performed with all due care and...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

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