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Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

This is the American harpsichordist Elaine Thornburgh's first solo record to be issued here; and what a splendid debut she...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

Brahms Piano Works

This is another valuable addition to Idil Biret's fine series of Brahms's solo piano music, the recordings of which were...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Fred Hersch & Bill Frisell - Songs We Know

This intimate duo exploration strips a set of standards down to their essential spine. Hersch had fleeting contact with Frisell...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Dohnanyi Piano Works

Dohnanyi died in 1960 at the age of 82, but (as he pointed out ruefully when he came to the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1993

Richter plays Beethoven & Brahms

This record admirably couples together two recordings which show Richter at his very finest. Anyone who has heard him live...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1988

Gesualdo Madrigals, Book 6

With their two latest discs, the Kassiopeia Quintet conclude a valuable intégrale of the notorious Prince of Venosa’s madrigals. If...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2009

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture; String Serenade

Like my colleagues EG and ES before me, I come away with mixed feelings about Christoph Eschenbach’s Tchaikovsky: admiration, certainly,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2010

Horowitz The HMV Recordings, 1930-51

Almost without exception these performances are free from any excess and in many cases Horowitz sounds a great deal more...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1990

Schumann Symphony 3 & Overture, Scherzo and Finale

If this set of performances had come from the latter-day Giulini, there probably wouldn't be much in the way of...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 1/2000

Mozart String Quintets, Vol. 1

As with their Naxos series of Mozart string quartets, the Eder here couple early music with later, which is inconvenient...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1995

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