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Great Pianists - Horowitz

‘Horowitz Rediscovered’, the title of RCA’s two-disc album, prompts a sea of reflections. Aged 72 at the time of his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Wagner Overtures and Orchestral Music

The opening moments of the Rienzi Overture (the first item on the disc) are certainly gripping: hushed string responses to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1996

Jolivet Chamber Music for Flute

Despite an accompaniment from just four percussionists, the Suite en concert (1965) counts as Andre Jolivet’s Second Flute Concerto (the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Lutoslawski Orchestral Works

It is Lutoslawski’s last completed work, the Fourth Symphony (1993), which most fully embodies his highly personal reinterpretation of Polish...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1996

Mendelssohn Motets

English record collectors who have grown accustomed to Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer sung by a solo treble voice (young Ernest...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1992

Geminiani Concerti Grossi, Op. 7

These six works, published in 1746 as Geminiani's Op. 7 comprise the last of his three sets of original concertos....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1983

Schubert Trout Quintet

The 22-year-old Schubert's happy zest when composing this ever-fresh delight was exultantly caught in the Brendel/Cleveland recording on Philips. Anyone...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1984

Giordano Siberia

As is so often the case with these things, you spend half your life with no recorded version of a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2004

Mozart Vn Concs Nos 1 & 2; Adagio, K261; Rondos, K269 & K373

Brightly focused, freely idiomatic Mozart from Pasquier, with playing of grace and nuance in the B major Concerto and buoyant...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 2/1999

Stravinsky Ballet Works

Following a Rite of Spring (also on Sony Classical, 11/90) conceived, at least in part, as a vehicle for orchestral...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

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