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Review of Chopin Piano Works

Chopin Piano Works

A well-balanced programme, this, proceeding from the pleasantries of the Impromptus through the seductive Barcarolle to the wider vistas of...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1993

Review of Zemlinsky Kleider Machen Leute

Zemlinsky Kleider Machen Leute

In retrospect it is possible to conclude that Schwann picked the two plums of Zemlinsky's operatic oeuvre when they recorded...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Review of Kronos: Released 1985-1995

Kronos: Released 1985-1995

Kronos is a quality act. No quartet currently performing has done more to bridge the divide between popular and ‘serious’...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/1996

Review of Rossini - Arias and Duets

Rossini - Arias and Duets

Packing up LPs for a house move last summer, I was saddened to find so many forgotten opera recitals by...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1999

Review of Maggie Teyte sings French Songs

Maggie Teyte sings French Songs

''Je rapporte une rare emotion'', the line from ''Le martin-pecheur'', one of Ravel's Histoires naturelles, as Dame Maggie sings it,...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/1994

Review of Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3

Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3

I am no expert on the finances of record labels but I do wonder sometimes how the men in suits...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2010

Review of Mahler Symphony No 3

Mahler Symphony No 3

As he told Martin Anderson in December, Leif Segerstam is no stranger to Mahler's symphonies. He may not be everyone's...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Review of The Art of Conducting

The Art of Conducting

These are all, of course, admirable performances; many of them are exceptional, even inspired. Is there any point, though, in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1996

Review of Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

It is disappointing that given an artist of Ashkenazsy's lustre, re-recording repetoire as central as the late Beethoven sonatas, Decca...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Review of Vaughan Williams Symphony No 1

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 1

No performance of a work lasting 66 minutes can fairly be described as perfunctory, but the word kept coming into...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990


 

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