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Bartók Orchestral Works, Vol.1

As Mandarins go, they don’t come more miraculous than this – a vivid, no-holds-barred performance that henceforth tops my list...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Hartmann: Symphonies

Stravinsky once remarked that Alban Berg was ''synthetic, in the best sense''—the same could perhaps be said about the German,...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 5/1990

R. Strauss Orchestral works

Despite his long and distinguished career as a Straussian, Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recent recordings of the symphonic poems haven’t met with...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Schubert (The) Trout Quintet, Piano Trio No 2

The first movement of the Piano Trio is marked Allegro, yet Trio Chausson deem it Allegro vivace; and play it...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2008

Stravinsky Firebird/Apollo/Scherzo

Enchantment without magic is something of a logical impossibility, which is perhaps why Mikhail Pletnev’s Firebird Suite – played as...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Enescu Complete Violin and Piano Works, Vol 1

Like Béla Bartók, Romanian composer-violinist-pianist George Enescu wrote violin music from a fairly early age, even earlier in fact: both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2009

Barbireau Missa Virgo parens Christi

Barbireau's premature death in 1491 (he was about 36) helps to explain his relative lack of fame. Whether the Mass...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/1999

Mercadante Decimini

How many readers, I wonder, know any Italian chamber music of the nineteenth century? There is of course the Verdi...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1996

Schreker Complete Songs for Voice & Piano, Volume 1

With Brahms a prime influence, these student works, all dating from the 1890s, give few hints of the future composer...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1999

Rachmaninov Symphonies

If I was slightly disappointed that Ashkenazy's reading of the Second Symphony of Rachmaninov lacked the full thrust of passion...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1983

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