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Schubert Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7

Schubert's F minor Sonata (1818) was not published until 1897, and then only as a three-movement fragment. The first movement...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Beethoven overtures

Some beautiful playing here, especially from the woodwind (there's a truly delightful flute solo at the beginning of the recapitulation...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/1987

Mozart String Quartets

This is the Endellion's first recorded foray into Mozart; and their finely played accounts of these two late quartets are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1990

Beach Empress of the Night: The Piano Works Series Vol

First, the good news. Joanne Polk and the Lark Quartet team up for a radiantly perceptive account of Amy Beach's...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2000

Amirov The Arabian Nights etc

After the synthetic doodlings of Karayev’s Seven Beauties ballet music (Olympia, 12/95), it’s a pleasure to welcome a ballet score...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Mendelssohn Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

There’s a fine line between a characterful performance and one where the composer’s personality is subsumed by that of the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2008

Bellini La Sonnambula

If Callas sounds as though recorded in a box, Sutherland seems to be in church. In fact it's London's Kingsway...

Reviewed in issue 4/1987

Flute Recital

This issue will be primarily of interest to flautists since Stephen Preston plays no less than seven different instruments dating...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1987

Haydn Symphonies Nos. 102 and 103

Collectors of previous issues in Abbado’s Haydn series with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe will have a fair idea of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1996

Scarlatti, A Magnificat; Dixit Dominus

For this setting of Dixit Dominus Alessandro Scarlatti harked back to the early 17th century (if not earlier) with some...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2007

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