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Chavez/MacDowell Piano Concertos

This two-disc reissue provides a touching and scintillating dual tribute to MacDowell’s often endearing romanticism, and to Eugene List’s early...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1997

Schumann & Sibelius Violin Concertos

A successful CD of an interesting coupling. The balance of the soloist remains noticeably forward, the solo timbre very tangible...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1985

Beethoven Mass in C

Beethoven’s Mass in C has long suffered, not just from comparison with the supreme Missa solemnis of some 10 years...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2008

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7. Wasps Ov

It seems good sense to couple the Boult versions of the last two symphonies; and also Nos. 4 and 6,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Lament The Brodsky Quartet

Whether you find this programme annoyingly bitty or profoundly stimulating will be very much a matter of personal taste. The...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Suk Asrael Symphony

It’s always problematical when a new recording has to confront rivalry from an almost impossibly great benchmark – the de...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2011

Bach Goldberg Variations

How astonished Parry would have been, when he wrote that the Goldberg Variations had been ''hindered from being generally known...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1993

Heggie Dead Man Walking

Jake Heggie’s first opera‚ to a libretto by Terence McNally‚ was given its world première at San Francisco in October...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Lux Feminæ

Monserrat Figueras has made a huge and unexpected contribution to our enjoyment and understanding of early music. Here, on her...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/2006

Bartók/Ellington Violin Works

In many performances of the Bartok Solo Sonata its legendary difficulty is more apparent than its beauty and nobility: the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1986

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