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Schubert Piano Works

The Schubert series of Brendel and Schiff, the return of Richter—to say nothing of Ashkenazy's own conducting career with its...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995

Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 2

Reviewing the complete set, RO found Haitink's No. 2 ''curiously lack-lustre … the tempos often rather broad, the dramatic temperature...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1989

American Flute Works

Doriot Anthony Dwyer, for many years the first flute of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is undoubtedly the right soloist for...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1993

Rossini Choral Works

This is a shrewd pairing of generally impressive recordings of Rossini’s two great – but very different – choral works....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1996

Dvorák String Quartet 1 & Terzetto

Dvorakians weaned on the 1976 DG version of the First Quartet are in for quite a jolt. Whereas the Prague...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1998

Missa Salisburgensis

This spaciously conceived work, by an unidentified hand, but variously attributed to Orazio Benevoli, Andreas Hofer and Biber, was first...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 3

The venue for this recording (Das Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel, Dobbiaco, Italy), the producer and piano are the same as Angela...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2010

Maazel, L 1984

When Lorin Maazel’s 1984 was first heard at Covent Garden in 2005 – the composer-conductor’s 75th year – it received...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2009

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

When a critical intelligence like Alfred Brendel's gets to work on Beethoven you can expect insights from the shaping of...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1994

Shostakovich String Quartets 4, 7 & 8

In a recently published interview regarding Shostakovich (Tempo, April 1997), Solomon Volkov expressed the opinion that American string quartets “perform...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

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