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Collectors' Treasures, Volume 2

These are treasures for collectors in the plural but they come from the treasury of one collector: Bill Breslin, proprietor...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005

Paisiello Music for Napoleon Bonaparte's Chapel

The music on this CD is something of a curiosity: the Christmas Mass that Paisiello composed in 1802 for Napoleon's...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1995

Brahms Piano Quartets

Since their Gramophone Award-winning Faure coupling in 1985 Domus have been reconstituted, with only Krysia Osostowicz (violin) and Susan Tomes...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Schoenberg Piano Works

I can't claim to be familiar with all Glenn Gould's recordings of earlier music, but the pianist who emerges from...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1995

Romantic Guitar Quartets

When guitarists turn their performing attention to such things as Pictures at an Exhibition and the New World Symphony I...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1990

Mengelberg conducts Tchaikovsky

First-class recordings of fine organ music (Virgin Classics, 4/90) and motets (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 7/94) by Pachelbel seem to have...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1994

Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev Ballet Music

For whatever reason, Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra only sporadically found their way to the west, whether on record...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Chopin (4) Ballades; (4) Scherzos

This is astonishing piano playing and Chopin interpretation that, at its best, fully measures up to the greatness of these...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/2004

Prokofiev Symphonies

Rarely can the Philadelphia sheen have sounded so utterly indecent. It's just what Prokofiev ordered—that decadent juxtaposition of the intensely...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1993

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

These are in many ways intelligent and sympathetic performances, at their strongest in making the most of the opening movements...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1990

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