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Berg; Schoenberg Piano Works

Most CDs featuring Second Viennese School piano music include Webern’s brief but significant contributions alongside Schoenberg and Berg. Roland Pöntinen...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2006

Bernstein: Orchestral Works

There are few more sheerly exciting gramophone moments than the sound of the New York Philharmonic brass and percussion tearing...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos 18 & 24

A rhythmically and tonally firm start to the B flat major Concerto from Claudio Abbado and the LSO initially seems...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1988

Schütz Kleiner geistlichen Concerten

Much is made of the political circumstances in which Schutz wrote his small-scale works, not least because the composer rarely...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1997

Nielsen String Quartets, Volume 2

Nielsen wrote five quartets in all between 1882 and 1919, although two of them exist in different versions, and the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2000

Nin/Piazzolla Oblivión

‘Oblivion’ is a curious sobriquet for a recorded collection, and Piazzolla’s brief opening piece of this name is a disarmingly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1999

Birtwistle (The) Woman and the Hare

Just as Entr’actes and Sappho Fragments can now be heard as anticipating the style of Birtwistle’s first opera‚ Punch and...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Ligeti String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with “high end” repertory and reaping the rewards of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2010

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Favourites

Helped by vivid sound, James Judd conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in glowing performances of these favourite Vaughan Williams...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

M. Haydn Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl; Overtures; Dances

Assorted instrumental pieces frame the one-act comedy Der Bassgeiger zu Worgl to create a snapshot of Michael Haydn’s output for...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999

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