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Stockhausen Helicopter String Quartet

I once trod in an old Thomas Beecham joke about Karlheinz Stockhausen, with such a feeble punchline I couldn’t be...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2008

Mayr La Rosa bianca e la rosa rossa

A favourable review can sometimes save a lot of money. This is a worthy opera and deserves a hearing. Well,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Brahms Piano Works

The prime interest here is Brahms's Op. 34, originally conceived as a string quintet, finally blossoming into the masterly F...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1995

Satie Piano Works, Vol. 5

It says much for Ciccolini's devotion to the Satie cause that, having already once made six LPs of his piano...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1989

Schumann Symphonies

With ears almost beleaguered by a recent glut of symphonic Schumann, I turned to Norrington's new disc looking for fresh...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

Herman Mame

Though lacking the outstanding songs, story and situations of Hello, Dolly! and La cage aux folles, Jerry Herman’s Mame has...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1999

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Few English artists enjoyed a more long-lasting, reciprocal love affair with the Salzburg Festival than Clifford Curzon who, at the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996

Mahler Symphony No 1

Like David Zinman’s recent recordings of Beethoven, Schumann and Strauss (all on Arte Nova), this interpretation of Mahler’s First Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 6/2007

Dietrich Violin concerto; Joachim Notturno

The sub-title of this pleasing disc is ''Three from a Group of Six'', meaning that Michel Carey, a baritone of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Bouzignac Sacred choral music

Bouzignac is one of those fascinating enigmas, occasionally thrown up, who though out of step with their contemporaries are all...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

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