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Musgrave (The) Fall of Narcissus

On ‘Pierrot Dreaming’ (6/02), Victoria Soames Samek gathered together an enticing selection of Thea Musgrave’s chamber music with clarinet, and...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2003

Borodin and Tchaikovsky: String Quartets

These two quartets have often been coupled on record, and indeed they make a good complement to each other. The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990

Harmonic Labyrinth

This recital disc will come as a puzzle to collectors. Prompted by a concert Rohan de Saram and Preethi de...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2011

Duos for Violin and Cello

Frank Peter Zimmermann and Heinrich Schiff have been a musical item for more than two decades and the fruits of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2006

Verdi (Un) ballo in maschera

Davis’s measured conducting is more favourable to the tinta of Verdi’s middle-period masterpiece than to its histrionic necessities: this is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tend to fall into one of two interpretative camps, the reverential, or “Olympian”, and the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2008

Milhaud Jazz Works

For his account of La creation du monde Ian Hobson chooses the original chamber version of the score. It has...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1988

Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

''What seraphic music. It must be Bruckner'', remarked a friend who entered the room as I was playing this recording....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Brahms; Dvorak Chamber Works

An excellently-chosen coupling this, not only as a reminder of the warm regard, both musical and personal, shared by Brahms...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/2003

Equinox

I first made the acquaintance of Abigail James’s playing on Delphian’s superb disc of Edward McGuire’s chamber music (A/06), and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2007

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