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Adams Phrygian Gates; Rzewski Four Pieces

Emanuele Arciuli is a deliberate pianist who’s unafraid to demarcate structural joins with his brittle attack and strategic nose for...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2006

Shostakovich Cello Concertos

Anticipating the ultimate judgements of posterity can be a risky business, and yet in the case of Shostakovich concertos I'll...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Handel Amadigi di Gaula

The merits of this great but neglected opera were first brought to my notice when Roger Norrington conducted the first...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

Douce Beaute: Airs de cour

This jaunty disc takes a novel approach to the air de cour – novel at least in terms of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1998

Schubert Violin Sonatas, Vol 2

This is Swensen and Kahane's second CD of music for violin and piano by Schubert. Volume 1 ( RD87823, 1/89)...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1989

John Amis - Amiscellany: Music Making With Old Friends

For those who enjoyed their weekly fix of the long-running My Music on steam radio, this disc will serve as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2008

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios, Vol 1

Here’s a recording that immediately, from the first, impetuous bars of Op 70 No 1, feels just right. In this...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2003

R. Strauss Tone Poems

Barenboim takes over shortly as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor and if this disc was intended as a foretaste...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

Bruckner Symphony No.7

Robert Simpson compared the Seventh to a smile in music, and at first sight the members of the Cleveland Orchestra...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 3/2010

Kim & Starer Violin Concertos

It is pretty rare for a soloist as bankable at the international box-office as Itzhak Perlman even to play a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1985

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