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Schubert Winterreise

Schopper possesses a firm, vibrant voice. Though he describes himself as a bass, the quality seems to me more that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas

I've never felt entirely comfortable with Alfred Brendel's Haydn, much-lauded though it is, and returning to him in the opening...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1989

Bach St Matthew Passion

A confession—though one that must be obvious to anyone who thinks what a record critic's job implies. When you are...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Zemlinsky String Quartets

In some ways Zemlinsky stands to Schoenberg as Bridge to Britten. At least I find that a helpful way to...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Rzewski The People will never be defeated

Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, among the most politically and musically ambitious of all keyboard epics,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999

Korngold Chamber Works

It’s bad luck on the Schubert Ensemble of London that their impressive new version of Korngold’s Op. 23 Suite (1930)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Technically speaking, Messiaen’s Quartet is not the most demanding composition in the twentieth-century chamber music repertory. But performers can find...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1997

Lamento

This is not the first disc of 17th-century German chamber motets and laments for alto voice and strings, but with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2003

Creston Symphonies 1-3

Creston is another American romantic whose heroic symphonies emerged in the 1940s. The rarity here is No 1, premiered in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2000

Beethoven Christ on the Mount of Olives

Beethoven’s fascination with the figure of Prometheus, who stole fire from the Gods to bring light and warmth to Man,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2004

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