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Penderecki, Schoenberg and Van de Vate

This disc commemorates a special event: all four works were performed at a concert in Cracow in November 1989 to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1991

Out of Russia Gidon Kremer

I suppose the point of this intriguing, admirably performed anthology is that all the music refers in some way to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Handel Arcadian Duets

First, a welcome on record to Emmanuelle Haïm – the brilliant conductor of a revival of Handel’s Rodelinda for Glyndebourne...

Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 11/2002

Toscanini Collection, Vol.64

This Beethoven Seventh has never been surpassed. It has every attribute—rhythmic vitality, power, lyricism—and communicates in a very extraordinary fashion....

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Mahler Songs of Youth

John Steane, writing of the LP some three years ago, commented on the mismatch between the maturity of Dame Janet's...

Reviewed in issue 4/1987

Mozart Piano Concertos

These two piano concertos make a good pair, the one predominantly sunny and the other darker, as befitting one of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1993

Modus Phantasticus

The Oxford-based Charivari Agréable here present a collection that explores music for viols originating in 17th- and early 18th-century Germany....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2004

Ustvolskaya Piano Sonatas

Undoubtedly the best recorded Ustvolskaya sonata disc to date. Hinterhauser is overliteral in the first two sonatas, but brings out...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/1999

Chausson Chamber Works

Recordings of this once-forgotten work seem to appear with something like regularity now. The CBS performance with Jorge Bolet, Itzhak...

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

Lachenmann Kontrakadenz; Klangschatten; Fassade

The past decade has seen a substantial number of recordings of Helmut Lachenmann’s music‚ and the Kairos label has done...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2002

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