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Kreutzer & Witt Septets

The last time a chamber work by the little-known Friedrich Witt appeared on records in this country, it was also...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1987

Bach Suites, BWV1010-1012

Recorder transcriptions of the Bach cello suites? There are already versions for viola, guitar and lute, to name only a...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Spohr String Quintets, Volume 3

The third volume of the New Haydn Quartet’s series of complete Spohr string quintets begins with one of the finest...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1996

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Illness and private tragedy dogged Arrau's last years, yet still he returned to the piano and to the recording studio...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1993

Mahler Symphony No 5

Barbirolli’s oft-acclaimed Fifth has its glories: the tragic eruptions of the first movement are put across with greater force than...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Wagner Lohengrin

Lohengrin has fared reasonably well on disc. I have listed above the better of the sets currently available, and none...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

Prokofiev Symphonies

As ever, Levine's musical credentials are impeccable. The required elements are all duly in place, his choices sound, his ear...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1995

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Op 35

It has been fascinating to study Mutter's live recording of a performance I heard in the Grosses Festspielhaus at Salzburg...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

Haydn Piano Concerto in D; Schubert Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

Günter Wand’s years with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, lasting from the Second World War up to 1974, predate those...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2005

Schubert Piano Sonata, D894

Whereas the catalogue's other contenders couple Schubert's so-called 'Fantasy Sonata' in G with something else, from this Russian-born, French-domiciled pianist,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1994

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