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Dutilleux Various Works

It makes good sense for Erato to repackage these Dutilleux recordings at mid price, especially for collectors who held back...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1996

Antheil Piano Works

The subtitle of this CD is ''Bad Boy of Music'', which is the title of Antheil's 1945 autobiography. He loved...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1995

Schubert String Quartets

Alarm bells have been clanging vigorously. Leather-clad string quartets astride motorbikes; Schubert's Death and the Maiden marketed under a ''lurid...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 2/1992

Mozart Requiem

Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s recent choral projects seem consciously to be reconciling some of the treasured values of his upbringing (especially from...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2004

Stravinsky Ballet Scores

Neo-classical Stravinsky, at his wittiest in Jeu de cartes and at his purest in Orpheus. A new recording of the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1992

Schubert String Quartets Nos 10 and 13

Listening to this new recording of the A minor Quartet, the first ever on period instruments, I was put in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1996

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto & Sonata

John Lill first performed Rachmaninov's Third Concerto when he was 18. Now, at 50, he returns to this daunting masterpiece,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994

Berg: Chamber and Instrumental works

Berg's Chamber Concerto is often referred to as his craggiest, least aurally appealing work and indeed it is virtually bound...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Beethoven String Quartets

The Busch recorded nine of Beethoven's 16 string quartets for HMV and American Columbia during the 1930s and early 1940s....

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Alfano Risurrazione

Outside Italy Franco Alfano is known only for having written the closing scene of Puccini's Turandot, and that completion, according...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1993

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