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Brahms Piano Works

Grigory Sokolov, a Russian Titan of a pianist, prefers live recordings to more anodyne, studio alternatives. Here you will certainly...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1995

New York Philharmonic - 150th Anniversary

The rogue item here is a Brahms Haydn Variations recording attributed to the Brunswick company and Toscanini, but with no...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Howells Organ Works, Volume 2

It comes as a huge surprise to find that these two works – the Sonata, Howell’s largest single work for...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1997

Patricia Rossborough - The Queen of Syncopation

Another hit in this splendid series of syncopated pianists. Raie da Costa, who died at 29, was the other female...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1999

Hedges Orchestral Works

Born in 1931, Anthony Hedges becomes the youngest composer to be represented in Marco Polo’s admirable British Light Music series....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1998

'Philharmonic'

Sir Thomas Beecham's London Philharmonic responds her to a varied quintet of rostrum styles and temperaments, proving beyond reasonable doubt...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Richard Crooks Opera Arias 1926-39

Crooks’s short but brilliant career at the New York Metropolitan was preceded by some years in which he greatly endeared...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Sibelius Piano Works

Ralf Gothoni’s recital overlaps only marginally with Marita Viitasalo’s recent disc on Finlandia with Kyllikki and Sibelius’s own transcription of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1996

Haydn Piano Trios

It was for the “the amateur domestic medium” (Simon McVeigh), that is to say women, that Haydn specifically wrote 12...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2007

Brahms Piano Quartet & Quintet

Jan Panenka needs no introduction: his chamber music recordings could almost be described as legendary. But the Kocian Quartet formed...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1990

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