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Bridge Orchestral and Vocal Works

No fewer than 10 first recordings adorn this, the last instalment in Richard Hickox’s valuable Frank Bridge series. Philip Langridge...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005

Mozart String Quartets 421, 138, 465

A delicately breathy sotto voce at the beginning of K421 presages promise. Often this opening isn’t inward enough and sometimes...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2011

Mozart Piano Concertos

Here is another valuable addition to the series of the Mozart piano concertos which these artists and Decca have been...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1992

Mozart String Quartet 19 & String Quintet 6

This latest offering in The Lindsays' ongoing survey of Mozart's mature quartets and quintets has all their familiar hallmarks. Both...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2000

Schumann Carnaval; Faschingsschwank aus Wien; Papillons

Having enjoyed Stefan Vladar in a variety of composers I have to admit to disappointment with his Schumann. In what...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2006

Beethoven - Complete Piano Trios, Volume 1

Best here is Ivan Klansky’s sensitive piano playing in the Second Trio’s pre-Brahmsian Largo e espressione. The Scherzo and finale...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Bach Solo Violin Partitas and Sonatas

When Grumiaux's recording was issued the sleeve-note proudly stressed that he had used a facsimile of Bach's manuscript; I cannot...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1987

Chopin Etudes (Complete)

No one did more than Chopin to transform the study from a technical exercise into a concert-piece, that’s to say...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996

Music for Mandolin

The fortunes of the mandolin, even more than those of the guitar, have waxed and waned over the centuries, though...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1992

Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses; Sonata in B minor

These two albums are offered as daunting tributes to celebrate the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt. And here pride of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2011

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