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Bruckner Symphony No 4

The Muti is so patently an essay in what he can effectively do with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bruckner's Fourth Symphony...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1986

Schoeck Elegie

A wonderful record. The Elegie was the first of Othmar Schoeck’s song-cycles and among his most haunting. It dates from...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1998

Mozart Così fan Tutte

As ever, Harnoncourt makes the listener think anew about the work in hand. All his Mozart recordings have been invigorating...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1991

Brahms Piano Concertos

Any pianist who can call on such testimonials as ''The best pianist I have ever heard'' (Artur Rubinstein), ''The piano...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Ferguson; Gurney Piano Works

The four unpublished pieces by Ivor Gurney are student works that move from Schubert (‘Despair’) – a distinct whiff of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2004

Celebrity Recital - Martin Roscoe

Unlike Sergei Dukachev’s disc in this series (5/06), Martin Roscoe’s recital, also given at Chetham School’s Summer Festival, was recorded...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2006

Wieniawski Works for Violin and Piano

It’s clear from the few of his pieces that are well known that Wieniawski was a gifted composer, so a...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2006

Arrau plays Chopin & Schumann

APR launch their ‘Claudio Arrau in Concert’ series with some wholly characteristic Chopin and Schumann taken live from the 1960...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Korngold Orchestral Works

It’s good to see Andre Previn championing the music of Korngold again – it was Previn, via one of his...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1997

Haydn (The) Creation

Cynics might expect this line-up to deliver a romantic, traditional performance, with soggy chorus, operatic soloists and an overly reverential...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2006

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