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Szymanowski Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Naxos here completes its second recorded cycle of Szymanowski’s orchestral works. And that apparent duplication seems less remarkable once you...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2009

Shostakovich; Tchaikovsky Cello Works

At first glance these works make strange bedfellows and there’s certainly a jolt when we turn from the relative calm...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2009

Violin Virtuoso

''Sure-way'', says the ASV publicity, helpfully guiding us over the pronunciation of this young Chinese virtuoso's name. It could hardly...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1990

Britten String Quartets

On the evidence of the Brodsky Quartet’s Challenge Classics recording of Britten’s First Quartet (10/02) Michael Oliver concluded that theirBritten...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2003

Britten Choral Works

As with other recent records from St John's, there is a freshness, almost a feeling of adventure and a sense...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2000

Puccini Bohème (La)

The great pleasure of this famous recording is of course Gigli’s Rodolfo: at 48 his voice was still in pristine...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart Chamber Works for Clarinet

This disc of Mozart's music with clarinet—but not originally so in the case of the Sonata, which appears here in...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1994

Janácek Quartet - Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings

First, a general but enthusiastic commendation for the Original Masters as a concept, precisely the sort of project that the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2003

Llobet Guitar Works

Before the coming of Segovia there was Catalan guitarist and composer Miguel Llobet to lay the groundwork – a fact...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2007

Bach - Violin and Voice

Bach single-artist recitals from DG have only enjoyed intermittent success. Christine Schäfer, Thomas Quasthoff and Anne-Sophie von Otter have all...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2010

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