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Bruckner Symphony No 5

Last year, after I had made some less than complimentary remarks about the playing of the Concertgebouw on a set...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1998

Koechlin Saxophone Luminuex (Le)

Koechlin fans have good reason to welcome this disc‚ containing all 15 of the Etudes‚ Op 188 and seven of...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Eileen Joyce plays Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn & Franck

By many people today Eileen Joyce is remembered only for playing Rach 2 on the soundtrack of the film Brief...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1998

Vladimir Grishko - Russian Arias

The title should‚ more accurately‚ read ‘Russian operatic arias‚ overtures and dances’; that‚ I would say‚ is more widely attractive....

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Rubinstein plays Bach, Franck & Liszt

The Bach/Busoni and the Franck were recorded in 1970 and are characteristic of Rubinstein's strongly disciplined way with large-scale forms....

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988

Chopin Piano Works

In this year of his sixtieth birthday, how good to have this reminder of Fou Ts'ong's lifelong devotion to Chopin....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1994

Emma Calvé - Complete 1902 G&T, 1920 Pathé and "Mapleson Cylinder" Recordings

In the alphabetical index of great singers, Calve follows Callas, and the sequence is suggestive. Both were actress-singers who brought...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Sandström; Hammerth Piano Concertos

For a composer whose style can be acutely abrasive, Sven-David Sandstrom (b 1942) begins his single- movement concerto in uncharacteristically...

Reviewed in issue 6/2000

Bartok Piano Rhapsodies; Violin Concerto No 1

The Hungarian National Philharmonic under the leadership of Zoltán Kocsis has provided Hungary with a first-rate ensemble to rival Iván...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2008

Dvorák Chamber Works

Nowadays it's virtually impossible to hear a performance of Dvorak's Piano Quintet in which the first two themes aren't taken...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

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