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Adès; Schubert Piano Quintets

Thomas Adès features both as composer and pianist on this new release: two piano quintets which, though composed 182 years...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2005

Beethoven Symphonies

Gone are the days when collectors could go out and buy Toscanini's RCA LP of these two symphonies, a difficult...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1990

Krenek Sardakai

Back in 1927, Ernst Krenek hit the mood of the times for imaginative yet up-to-date opera with Jonny spielt auf...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2007

Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos Nos 4 & 5

Vieuxtemps’s two best-known violin concertos have never been entirely neglected but I can remember when they were viewed as having...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2010

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

In Alfred Brendel's recent collection of essays Music Sounded Out (Robson: 1991), there is an absorbing conversation entitled ''On Schnabel...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1991

Sainte-Colombe Concerts a deux Violes Esgales

It is a happy coincidence that these recordings arrived for review at the same time. In spite of the energetic...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 13/2003

For All the Saints

With grateful acknowledgement to the company of saints in general, and special mention for a few of the better known,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Bloch Works for Piano and Orchestra

One could hardly imagine a concerto that is more uncompromisingly “symphonique” than Bloch's 45-minute edifice, a veritable epic that opens...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2008

Haydn String Quartets, Op. 54

Since the war there hasn't exactly been a great rush to record these three quartets, and at the moment the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1987

Britten & Saxton: Orchestral Works

Britten's Piano Concerto, composed in 1938, is a bravura piece, let down by its mock-Prokofiev finale, where the poor quality...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

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