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The Swan - Cello Encores

I gave the highest praise to the phenomenally gifted Han-Na Chang’s first CD (which included a glorious account of Tchaikovsky’s...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000

Brahms Cello Sonatas

Neither Karina Georgian, a pupil of Rostropovich and first prize-winner at the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition, nor Pavel Gililov had come...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1994

Essential Ockeghem

The Clerks’ Group’s set of nine CDs devoted to the complete Masses and motets of Ockeghem was a milestone in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2007

Maurice Renaud-Complete Recordings 1901-1908

Renaud is often termed, and rightly, the French Battistini: there’s the same smoothness of tonal emission throughout his range, the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1998

Adès Chamber & Orchestral Works

In not much more than 18 months, EMI has now recorded 19 works by Thomas Ades, including his full-length opera,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1999

Toscanini Collection - Sibelius

Toscanini's Sibelius is tense, sharply drawn, and highly dramatic. Dark, Nordic atmosphere is replaced by clear, gleaming textures. If these...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Sophie Casell - Debut

Watching the solo finals of the BBC’s talent show Classical Star at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, I was not sure...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2008

Biber Sonatas

Biber Jnr was employed, like his father before him, at the episcopal court of the Prince-Bishop in Salzburg, and he...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2000

Haydn String Quartets

Unlike the two works of Op. 77, Haydn's Op. 76, arguably the greatest, certainly the most exploratory of all eighteenth-century...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1992

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro

The first Figaro recording of all, conducted by Fritz Busch, came from Glyndebourne more than 50 years ago now. It...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1988

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