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Bach Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1

The booklet-notes that Richard Egarr provides for his recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 offer plausible musical and historical...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2007

(The) Fam' d Italian Masters

No one has trawled through more 17th-century instrumental music in the past 30 years than Peter Holman. This programme reveals...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2003

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

“It sometimes seems to me as if I did not belong to this world at all.” These oft-quoted words of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2009

Elgar Violin Concerto

A sequence of distinguished non-British violinists have recently offered new versions of Elgar’s Violin Concerto – Zehetmair (Hallé, 8/10), Shaham,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2010

Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 6 & 8

In this 1988 recording of two early Beethoven sonatas by Sir Yehudi Menuhin and his son Jeremy, the first thing...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1990

Lutoslawski; Salonen;Stucky Piano Works

Gloria Cheng returns with this well planned recital of music from Witold Lutoslawski, his biographer Steven Stucky and his longtime...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2008

Earl Wild - The Virtuoso Piano

This recital, recorded in 1964 and now admirably transferred to CD, provided my first encounter with the supreme virtuosity of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1992

Bruckner Symphony No 6

At long last alleluias are in order. EMI have finally got round to reissuing on CD the finest—nay,: the only...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1990

Copland Orchestral Works

This is a real scoop for Copland enthusiasts. These recordings reveal Bernstein and the NYPO on top form in the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1991

Brahms Lieder

There's no stopping the Price/Johnson bandwagon just now. Here is yet another profoundly enjoyable and well-considered offering from the pair....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

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