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Russian Vocal and Chamber works

Arensky's F minor Piano Trio has never enjoyed anything like the exposure of its D minor predecessor. Yet it is...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Haydn Symphonies

An engaging programme of three contrasted symphonies from the years 1765-71, when Haydn was moving steadily towards the first full...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1992

Mendelssohn String Symphonies, etc

For all their richness of melodic invention and contrapuntal expertise, the sixth and seventh of Mendelssohn's string symphonies remain transitional...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 3/1992

Brussels 5557

English Mass-music of the mid-15th century is in short supply owing to the loss of manuscript sources. The two survivors...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2000

Martinu Piano Trios

The three Bekova Sisters have already given us the First Piano Trio of 1930, coupling it with the Ravel (Chandos,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1999

Handel: Organ Concertos

Hurford and Rifkin wear their scholarship lightly and the overall impression this record gives is one of fun. Even the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Bartók (The) Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19

Marin Alsop’s Miraculous Mandarin can claim among its virtues stealth, colour and energy. In the famous and furious fugato passage...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2005

Mozart Piano Trios

Patience has to be cultivated by any admirer of the Pires/Dumay/Wang trio: it seems a lifetime since their thrilling Brahms...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1997

Berkeley Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duets

This is some of the finest British piano music of the century, so it is particularly rewarding to have a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1994

Chopin Edition, Vol 5

Volume 5 of Eugéne Mursky’s Chopin odyssey takes us to the Four Scherzi and three of his miscellaneous masterpieces. Chopin’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2009

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