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Mozart Wind Concertos

There are happy and shapely performances of all three concertos here, but the particular delight is that of the latest...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/2001

Mozart Idomeneo

After Gardiner’s lithe, slimline Idomeneo (astonishingly already over five years old), which understandably carried nearly everything before it, we are...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5. Piano Sonata No 31

Here are some superb answers to those who express the feeling—they include Edwin Fischer—that musical quality is an elixir too...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Shostakovich Symphony 4

This is the first recording of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony to appear on CD, and it is warmly welcome. The Fourth...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Coleman Sweet Charity

Recorded in 1994 but released only now in the wake of the recent West End production, this set comes as...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 9/1998

Vassily Primakov plays Brahms, Chopin and Scriabin

Vassily Primakov has won plaudits in these pages for his previous recordings of Chopin concertos and Beethoven sonatas but I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2010

Yehudi Menuhin plays Bach Violin Works

These recordings, made when Menuhin was between the ages of 16 and 19, have many remarkable features. In the first...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Bach English Suites

The six English Suites seem to be the least recorded of Bach’s three major collections of keyboard suites just at...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2000

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio

Balance is a difficult problem to solve in Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio, as the composer himself acknowledged with his reluctance to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994

Lecuona Piano Works

Without the benefit of any centenary or other commemoration on the horizon, Ernesto Lecuona seems suddenly to have become something...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1999

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