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Brahms: Symphony No.1

Muti's Philips recordings of the Fourth and Second Symphonies struck me as having many good qualities (6/89 and 3/90 respectively),...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

Rachmaninov Vespers

This is a first-rate bargain price recording of Rachmaninov’s sublime music (more correctly known as the ‘Vigil’ rather than ‘Vespers’)....

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Twin Spirits

Twin Spirits sets out to tell the oft-told story of the relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann, one of classical...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2009

Schoenberg String Quartets Nos 3 & 4

It has long been clear that Robert Craft likes his Schoenberg fervently abrasive. Even when – as here – recordings...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2010

Chopin Complete Etudes

Has there ever been a piano competition anywhere in the world without a Russian among its six finalists? Boris Berezovsky,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Schubert Piano Sonata, D958

This welcome addition to the steady trickle of John Ogdon releases finds him in an area with which he is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2004

Leighton - Sacred Choral Music

First – a pleasant surprise almost like news of an unexpected half-holiday at school – here is an addition to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2004

Bassoon Concertos

Name five internationally famous bassoonists. Archie Camden, Gwydion Brooke and, er, that’s it. Except I think we shall soon be...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Sylvan has said in his interview on page 11 that he has a long association with this cycle; that is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1993

Kilar Orchestral Works

The music of Wojciech Kilar‚ 70 in July‚ has been variously described as ‘spuriously kitsch’‚ ‘naively devotional’ or ‘intuitively post­modern’;...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

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