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Brahms/Frühling/Schumann Chamber Works

Listening to a good chamber music performance should be like eavesdropping on a mutually sympathetic conversation. Here, that conversation is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2000

Beethoven: String Quartets

With a playing time of 79'49'' (to be precise) this must be one of the most well-filled CDs to date....

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Schubert Winterreise

With more than 50 versions of this extraordinary work now in the catalogue, making a choice becomes ever more difficult....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996

Loewe Songs and Ballads

Carl Loewe was born just two months before his famous contemporary and consequently dubbed by the Viennese “the north German...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2011

Gustavo Dudamel - (The) Promise Of Music

The “sistema” has been going in Venezuela for more than 30 years. It is probably the most ambitious programme of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008

Berlioz Songs

This is a corker of a disc. Indeed I wouldn't be surprised if it put Gardiner in line for yet...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1991

WERGO 40 Years - Special Edition

Given the austere nature of the slipcase, you might think ‘Wergo 1962-2002’ is designed as an epitaph rather than a...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 3/2003

Brahms Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3

Here’s an interesting foray into period performance. The 1870 Streicher piano used by Grigorieva has a very different sonority from...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2008

Brahms Piano Sonatas 1-3 etc

Many years ago Henri Neuhaus, the legendary Russian piano professor, told Ugorski that he was a free and independent spirit...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1997

Schumann Piano & Violin Concertos

In her live recording Martha Argerich gives a vividly compelling, characteristically volatile reading of the Schumann Concerto, at once poetic...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1995

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