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Bach Goldberg Variations

Establishing a telling and plausibly individual post-Gouldian solution to the Goldbergs has unsurprisingly come more from the likes of pianists...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2003

Brahms Symphony No 4

A glance at the timings for Sir Colin Davis's reading suggests that tempos are well chosen for both the contemplative...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1990

Duparc Orchestral Songs

Duparc orchestrated eight of his songs, but it is not often that they are collected together on one disc. The...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Mendelssohn Octet, Op 20; String Quartet, Op 13

Though the Octet bears the higher opus number it is in fact the earlier composition of the two here, and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Brahms Orchestral and Choral Works

This disc is planned so that we hear the two shorter works first. Abbado's interpretation of the Haydn Variations is...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Koechlin Songs

Koechlin's obsession with the stars of the silent screen, especially with the English actress Lilian Harvey, drew from him a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1987

Rachmaninov Vespers

Alexander Sveshnikov's Le Chant du Monde recording of Rachmaninov's Vespers is now elderly (it was actually made in 1965), but...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1987

Glazunov Piano Works

Today, Glazunov (1865–1936) is often dismissed as a conservative who offered little beyond a timid orthodoxy. True, his style remained...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1993

Britten Peter Grimes

Peter’s line “Where the walls themselves gossip of inquest” – his cry of pain to Ellen after the coroner’s open...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 3/2008

Debussy and Ravel Vocal and Orchestral Works

There's almost a hint of turbulence in Tortelier's ''Nuages'' from Nocturnes—a more active cloudscene than usual, with much made of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1991

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