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Beethoven Piano Sonatas

There is wonderful playing here, inspired by insight and qualities of intellectual inquiry and rigour that are without peer among...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/1995

Claudio Arrau Piano Concertos

Arrau's performance of the Chopin E minor Concerto with Klemperer has, for some reason achieved almost a legendary status. Personally,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1990

American Icons

This American anthology is well named. The Copland Fanfare is iconic for jubilation, Barber’s Adagio for tragedy. The ensemble is...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2011

ROSSINI Mosè in Egitto; Otello; Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra

Amid a small avalanche of new or newly reissued Rossini opera recordings, none is more important, individually or as a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Mahler/Nono Vocal Works

While I have no doubt that its political posturings will strike some readers as ill-judged, this is no run-of-the-mill release....

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Martinu Bergerettes; Schnittke Piano Trio; Shostakovich Piano Trio Op 8

As a medium the modern piano trio is as tricky as they come, not that you would know that from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2008

(Les) Ballets Trockadero, Part 2

Men in tutus. The joke­potential is obvious – the heavy ballerina either dropped or unceremoniously dumped off­stage; the dying swan...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

French Violin and Piano Works

By his own admission Poulenc was never very happy writing for solo strings, and in fact destroyed two violin sonatas...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1995

Shostakovich Symphony 8

It will not, I hope, re-fuel the 'what does Shostakovich's music really mean?' controversy to say that the Eighth is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1983

Dupré Organ Works

You won't find a better one-disc anthology of Dupre's organ music than this. Atmospherically recorded on the glorious Saint-Sulpice Cavaille-Coll...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2000

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