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Stravinsky: Orchestral & Chamber Works

The possible permutations for a single record of Stravinsky's chamber orchestral music are numerous. Here is one which thoughtfully offers...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Bang on a Can

In their second CD for Sony Classical, the Bang on a Can All-Stars administer another dose of belligerent ‘crossover’. Once...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Beethoven Chamber Works

We're told that the Raphael Trio, who made their debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1975, has given complete...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

Miaskovsky Symphonies

Here are two symphonies highly contrasting in musical language, yet stamped with the same gentle probing spirit that was always...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Mielck Symphony in F minor; Concert Piece for Piano & Orchestra

When Finnish critic Karl Flodin castigated Sibelius for avoiding the classical symphony, he used the example of Ernst Mielck's Symphony...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2000

Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

The fact that Previn's name is not widely thought of in connection with either Brahms or sacred music makes his...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1987

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Op 53 & Op 111

The young Ashkenazy was, of course, a phenomenal pianist, as witness his Liszt Feux follets or his 1960 Chopin Etudes....

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/2003

Boulez conducts Ligeti

Sony Classical were first in the field with a recording of Ligeti's Piano Concerto, but DG have secured the greater...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1995

The Fantastic Harpsichord

The harpsichord is one of the few 'early' instruments to have attracted a genuine twentieth-century repertory, and Tiensuu is one...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1990

Bach Cantatas

Karl Richter was pretty well cast aside in the fickle 1980s as an exponent of weighty neoromantic Bach, just when...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/1993

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