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Schubert Winterreise

It is significant that Karl Schumann, in his notes for the DG reissue, bears out what Robin Holloway wrote in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1993

Lassus St Matthew Passion

For those brought up on the richly decorative canvases of Schütz and Bach, the responsorial style of Passion that preceded...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2011

Toscanini Collection - Beethoven

Here is the earliest and most characterful of Toscanini's three commercial Eroicas. The playing is full of passion and commitment...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Mahler Symphony No 6

Mahler's Sixth Symphony is a tragic work, a work which, uniquely among Mahler's symphonies, ends in complete catastrophe. Nor is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1983

Brahms/Dvorák Cahmber Works

Born in Chile in 1964, Andres Diaz completed his studies in the USA where he now lives, teaches and of...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1993

John Harle's Saxophone

This is the most beautiful alto-playing since Johnny Hodges; and the most beautiful soprano-playing ever. Or so it seems after...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

Stepán Capriccio Nos 1-5; Sonatas Nos 2 & 5

In 1993, according to Artur Rubinstein’s biographer Harvey Sachs (Rubinstein: A Life; Grove Press: 1995) , the pianist’s daughter Alina...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/1999

Beethoven Piano Trios

The completest of the complete versions of Beethoven's piano trios comes from the Beaux Arts Trio, whose extravagant seven-LP boxed...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1987

Boyce Symphonies

The Boyce Eight Symphonys (as he himself spelt the title) are one of the treasures of English eighteenth-century music, cheerful,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1994

Beethoven Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol 1

No, this is not the same fortepiano – a copy of a 1795 Anton Walter – that Ronald Brautigam used...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2005

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