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Janácek; Schulhoff String Quartets

The personnel of the Talich Quartet is totally different from its founder-members of 41 years ago, and indeed from the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2006

Wagner (Die) Walküre, Act 1

Klemperer was nearing the end of his career when he suggested to EMI that he might record the whole of...

Reviewed in issue 3/2001

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky; Cinderella Suite No 1

Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata is one by-product of Stalinism that shows no sign of going out of fashion. That said,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Music for Strings in the Republic of Venice (1615-30)

This recording celebrates those early seventeenth-century composers whose string music aspired to the innovative rhetorical gestures of vocal idioms. Many...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Argento & Benson: Vocal Works

Dominick Argento, now in his sixties, is a leading conservative in American composition. In fact he has occupied this position...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1991

Bach; Chopin; Mendelssohn Piano Works

One of the special delights of the Seventh Chetham’s International Summer School was this recital by Vanessa Latarche. Her carefully...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008

Handel Saul

The destructive power of envy is the central theme of Handel’s Saul: Saul’s unruly emotions bring about the end of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2004

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 9, 10, 12 & 15

For all that artists come and go, emerge in the public spotlight and then just as quickly recede, the really...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2009

Mariss Jansons & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

In some ways this is an impressive set; in others a somewhat frustrating experience. The evidence confirms Mariss Jansons as...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004

Martinu Complete Duos and Trio for Strings

It doesn’t look promising: a whole disc of string duos and trios (notoriously demanding media) by a composer that even...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

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