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Kuula Come, My Love

Toivo Kuula's music, despite several outings on disc, has never achieved the international acclaim that much of it deserves. The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2006

Beethoven: Middle Quartets

Again the Alban Berg Quartet is the first in the field and their set of the Rasumovsky together with Opp....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985

Haydn: String Quartets

Haydn's last two complete string quartets always seem to me to stand slightly apart from the others by dint of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1989

Schumann Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

Schumann with his romantic wings clipped was my first reaction, or, to put it another way: Schumann as a man...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1990

Schubert Lieder

Can a voice be ‘too beautiful’? That was the charge laid against Souzay by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2004

Saint-Saëns Piano Trios

1863 and 1892 are the dates of these trios, of which No. 1 was written by a composer not yet...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1995

String Quartets by Women Composers

The spectrum of women’s string quartet writing is covered here. While the Mendelssohn-Hensel and Smyth are enjoyable pieces of their...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1998

Schubert for Two

The printed interview accompanying this disc finds both musicians defensive about the lightweight nature of much of their programme. Why?...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2005

Fox Catalogue irraisoné

Here’s some compositional reverse engineering. Christopher Fox describes his Catalogue irraisoné (1999-2001) as a “parallel version of the same ideas...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 4/2010

Royer Harpsichord Works

It is now some 12 years since William Christie made an excellent disc of Pancrace Royer's only published collection of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1993

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