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Schubert Symphony No 9

Giulini was 59 when he first conducted Schubert’s Great C major Symphony at the 1973 Edinburgh Festival. Four years later,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2004

Mahler Symphony No 4

Although Haitink's digital Amsterdam account with Roberta Alexander has not been withdrawn, this new Berlin version will undoubtedly find an...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Pärt Miserere; Festina lente; Sarah was ninety-yearsold

This latest in ECM's continuing series of music by Arvo Part strikes me as being the best to date. That...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Ravel Piano Works

You will go a long way to hear a Ravel recital as single-minded or cruelly masterful as this. For, make...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1995

Liszt Piano Works

Philips have deleted (temporarily I hope) the 1958 live Richter (11/88) which I, and I see SJ too, have found...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Wolf-Ferrari/J Strauss II/Bloch Chamber works

The real find here is the Bloch Four Episodes, the first of which – “Humoresque macabre” – suggests a wizened...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Neuhaus plays Scriabin

After teaching in Tiflis and Kiev, Heinrich Neuhaus, a pupil of the great Godowsky, became famous as a professor for...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1994

(Les) Introuvables d' Alexis Weissenberg

This is Weissenberg’s personal selection, and a wide-ranging, richly fascinating choice it is too. No Schumann and none of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2004

Brahms and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

Duration isn't everything, I realize, but congratulations must go to ASV for providing such a well-filled disc, and for finding...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1991

Cello Moods - Julian Lloyd Weber

Back in April I was reviewing, with considerable enthusiasm, Julian Lloyd Webber’s generous mid-price compilation of ‘Favourite Cello Concertos’. Now...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1999

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