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Prokofiev Chamber Works

Only last July I was welcoming a Chandos recording of the two Prokofiev quartets by the Chilingirian, which I thought...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1991

Debussy Préludes, Vol 2

The Debussy Preludes: two collections of pieces, or should we think of each book as a cycle? A thoughtful note...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/1989

Schnittke Symphony No 6; Concerto Grosso No 2

Since Alfred Schnittke died in 1998 there seems to have been a certain winding-down of interest in his music (the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2004

Byrin Janis - True Romantic

EMI’s ‘Byron Janis: True Romantic’ provides an enthralling complement to the two instalments in Philips’s Great Pianists series (Vol. 1...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1999

Ivan Moravec plays Beethoven, Volume 2

This issue of ‘named’ Beethoven sonatas provides an eloquent demonstration of Ivan Moravec’s fluent, passionate pianism. As Alena Nemcova points...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Haydn (The) Seven Last Words

The Emerson Quartet’s expressive take on Haydn’s Seven Last Words comes with various details reinstated from the orchestral original, largely...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2004

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1; Dohnányi Nursery Variations

The striking difference between this new Schiff version of Tchaikovsky's B flat minor Concerto and the recent Pogorelich account on...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1986

Leoncavallo Arias

Corriam a festeggiar! In other words, “Roll up and celebrate”. An extraordinary feast, this, of, and for, young-and-old, but young...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2010

Chopin/Schumann Works for Cello and Piano

The programme recorded by Thedéen and Pöntinen has already been powerfully and expressively recorded‚ a dozen years ago‚ by another...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Boccherini Cello Concerti

The discovery of a twelfth Boccherini cello concerto in Naples spurred David Geringas on Claves and now Julius Berger to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

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