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Mahler Symphony No 5

Gunther Herbig will never be a great Mahler conductor, but he brings to the Fifth an elegant and unaffected quality....

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Scriabin Piano Works

Writing with touching enthusiasm and insight, 33-year-old Alexander Melnikov is clearly lost in wonder over Scriabin’s strange and ever-controversial genius....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2006

Debussy Works transcribed for two pianos

Though it carries a fine photo of Debussy with Caplet which I don't remember seeing before, my first impressions of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Taverner Sacred Choral Works

To their growing collection of recordings of Taverner's festal Masses, The Sixteen have now added this magnificent six-part Mass in...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1991

Dans un caractère populaire

It’s a pity that the more interesting aspects of this imaginatively planned release don’t offset its interpretative shortcomings. Patrick Bismuth...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Sonatas by Muffat and Schmelzer

George Muffat, a German composer, provides an interesting and important link between late seventeenth-century Italian and French music. He modelled...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1986

Mahler Symphony No 1

A beautifully lyrical, mellow and atmospheric performance, recorded with outstanding clarity and fiedlity and clearly benefiting from having been recorded...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Dvorák/Schumann Piano Quintets

Their Carnegie Hall concert 11 years ago was the first time the Alban Berg Quartet, always perfectionists, had risked live...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1996

(El) Cant de la Sibilla

Who has not heard with some curiosity that fleeting reference to the Sibyl at the beginning of the Dies irae...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/1999

Bach Keyboard Fantasies

Andreas Staier, who recently left Cologne Musica Antiqua to embark on a career which allows him more time to prepare...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1989

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