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Chopin Piano Works

Readers may recall how Janina Fialkowska caught the eye and ear of Arthur Rubinstein in the first competition named in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2010

Bach Violin Concertos

Following his impressive account of the unaccompanied violin music (ABC Classics, 10/06), Richard Tognetti is well placed to do justice...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2007

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9

Perhaps I've listened to too many Shostakovich Fifths lately; I must confess that I was not greatly looking forward to...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1990

Mozart: Works for Flute and Orchestra

It is hard to begin a review of the Mozart flute concertos without remembering that he disliked the instrument, but...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1990

A. & W. Lloyd Webber Variations; Aurora

To have produced a Webber/Webber/Webber record was a splendid idea, the very different skills of the three musicians of the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Rota (La) Strada; Weill Symphony No 2

Kurt Weill's Second Symphony is the main work on both these CDs. Chandos couples it with the First Symphony and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2007

Dusapin Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Although Ligeti’s piano Etudes are established at the forefront of a genre previously vitalised by Chopin and Debussy, other contemporary...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2004

Bach (The) Well Tempered Clavier

In 1985 I heard Maurizio Pollini perform Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 and remembered his playing as straightforward, somewhat austere,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2010

Lambert - Last Recordings (The) 1905-51

Constant Lambert was a flamboyant‚ sparkling figure who thrived on colourful music like this‚ so it is sad that he...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Schumann Chamber Works

Each dating from the early 1840s, the Piano Quintet and E flat Quartet contain little of the manic-depressive contrasts of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1994

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