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Charles Mackerras - 80th Birthday Portrait

Here’s a desirable compendium of material spanning nearly three decades to celebrate Sir Charles Mackerras’s 80th birthday. To the best...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2005

Vladimir Horowitz Recital

Much of the mystique surrounding the name of Vladimir Horowitz is due to his well-publicized withdrawals from the public arena,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1986

Edwards Raft Song at Sunrise

On the evidence of this beautifully performed and extremely well-produced Tall Poppies anthology, Sydney-based Ross Edwards (b.1944) is a composer...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1999

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

Huseyin Sermet, about whom the Erato booklet gives no biographical information and whose only entry to date in The Classical...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Beethoven Leonore

Romain Rolland, writing specifically of Beethoven’s Leonore, described the work as “a monument of the anguish of the period, of...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1997

J. Adams The Death of Klinghoffer

The modern composer, Nicolas Nabokov once wrote, ''should not compose for eternity, but for fleeting occasions and for the fun...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Schoenberg/Liszt Piano Concertos

Pollini's Schoenberg and Schumann was a provocative coupling, but a less illuminating one, as it turns out, than Ax's Schoenberg...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Nash Symphony; Apollinaire Choruses

The main contemporary model for a two-movement symphony is Lutoslawski’s Second, with its progression from ‘hesitant’ to ‘direct’, tentative to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1999

Mozart/Weber/Spohr Clarinet Concertos

Ernst Ottensamer is a virtuoso with a real sense of style, that is to say a musician with an instinct...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1994

Mozart Piano Works

Ashkenazy’s first Mozart sonatas since 1968! The disc proclaims the news verbally, and the playing bears witness to the fact....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1996

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