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Frida Leider (1888-1975) - II

The greatest of Leider’s Wagnerian solos are here, and she, in the opinion of many, was the greatest of Wagnerian...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Chopin Piano Sonatas

In 1955 Adam Harasiewicz won first prize in the Warsaw International Chopin Competition. Ashkenazy came second. The decision puzzled those...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2011

Toscanini conducts Beethoven and Mozart

RCA have already issued Toscanini’s 1949 studio recording of the Eroica as part of their complete Beethoven symphony set ((CD)...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Haydn String Quartets

I've spent some time trying to work out why this set left me with such negative feelings. The playing has...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1991

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time - Cpte Works for Brass

There’s little hint here of the escapist aura that frames most of Rautavaara’s recent orchestral work. Latest to arrive is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2000

Beethoven, Mozart & Glinka Clarinet Trios

Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio comes off especially well here – a most affectionate, notably poised rendering. Pianist Wolfgang Kuhnl’s limpid contribution...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Prokofiev War & Peace

Rostropovich's Erato version of War and Peace first appeared in 1989, and was welcomed by L S with few reservations....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Penderecki Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Few major contemporary composers have met with such a mixed response as Krzysztof Penderecki, but then few have produced quite...

Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 3/2005

Thomas Quasthoff - Basso

Hänssler tells us nothing in their documentation about the provenance of these extracts from works by Handel and Bach, but...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003

Shostakovich Symphony No.4

Shostakovich's Fourth was conceived explicitly as his symphonic credo; it ended up, implicitly, as his de profundis clamavi. It is...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

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