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Mahler Symphony No 5

This distinguished Karajan recording has already been available at bargain price so its appearance in mid-price Originals livery comes as...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jorge Bolet

The second volume of Philips’s tribute to Jorge Bolet follows his monumental 1974 Carnegie Hall recital, a red-letter occasion when...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1999

Schubert Piano Sonata, D960; Moments Musicaux, D780

Dejan Lazic´ is a young Croatian pianist whose work has been favourably compared to Horowitz and Perahia, Pogorelich and Mustonen....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2005

Strauss, R Don Juan

Strauss had written a fair amount of orchestral music before Aus Italien appeared in 1886 and, two years later, Don...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2009

Lalande Tenebrae

Those interested in the music of the French Baroque will be familiar with the genre lecons de ténèbres, the settings...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/2003

Brahms (Ein) deutsches Requiem

Like most other chamber-scale recordings of the Requiem, this one ignores Brahms’s arrangement of the orchestral parts for piano in...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2011

Ferguson & Finzi: Choral & Orchestral Works

Thirty-minute choral works are not easy to programme. I can think of no other reason why Howard Ferguson's Amore langueo...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1988

Schubert Piano Sonatas 14 & 17

Mitsuko Uchida’s Schubert is never less than wonderfully finished in pianistic terms, and as an interpretation it is only occasionally...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2000

Suk Piano Quartet; Piano Quintet

Completed around 1891, Josef Suk’s youthful Piano Quartet bears an inscription to his teacher and future father-in-law Dvoák, and it’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2004

Wirén Orchestral and Chamber works

It was Dag Wiren who once declared his faith was ''Mozart, Carl Nielsen and absolute music'', and those who love...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1992

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