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Bruckner Symphony No 4

The physical and psychological variables of live music-making can lead musicians to adopt stratagems which are disagreeable and distracting when...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2006

Szymanowski King Roger; Symphony No 4

King Roger is a ravishingly beautiful opera, but a very fragile one. Like Verdi’s La traviata it is an opera...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Wallace Lurline

You have to hand it Naxos: at a time when it might seem there can be no more unrecorded operas...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 8/2010

Clarinet Quintets

This disc of music for clarinet and string quartet, delightfully played by Thea King and the Britten Quartet, is a...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

Rossini Stabat mater

Rossini's Stabat mater has not been at all frequently recorded and what recordings there have been have often turned out...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1990

The Two Pianos

The juxtaposition of Russian and French music, of Rachmaninov with Dukas, Debussy and Bizet, could hardly be more stimulating. Yet...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1999

Mendelssohn Songs without Words

As one German musicologist put it, Mendelssohn's Songs without Words quickly became ''a household possession, as widespread as the Grimm...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

Mozart Lucio Silla

Verdicts such as ''mediocre'' (Dent) and ''a highly unfortunate and uneven piece of work'' (Einstein) do not encourage investment, but...

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Verdi Il Trovatore

This set has been grossly underrated in the work’s not altogether over-populated discography. In the first place it is blessed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

Schumann, C Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 7; Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17

The autograph manuscript of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto (1845) revealed not only the toil but also the hand of Clara,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2005

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