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Shostakovich plays Shostakovich, Volume 4

Shostakovich’s piano playing is all that you might expect it to be, brilliant in the Cello Sonata and intense in...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Handel Messiah

O dear! Mozart had plenty to say about Handel, and about the Viennese audiences for whom he arranged Messiah; but...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1994

Schumann/Franck Piano Works

Horowitz once expressed a wish to make a record of a single work—Chopin's G minor Ballade, for example—in performances ranging...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1995

John Blow Anthems

John Blow is undeniably the most distinguished English composer after Purcell in the last years of the seventeenth century. If...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/1996

Cornissimo

Bernhard Crusell’s three clarinet quartets, written in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, are charming works, owing more...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1997

Bartók Miraculous Mandarin. Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta

It so happens that this month EMI have also reissued the LP version of these performances in the new mid-price...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1985

Smetana Piano Works Vol. 5

There are 22 short works on this disc and a good number more if you include each brief waltz and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011

Busoni Doktor Faust

Busoni started composing his Faust – based not on Goethe but on 16th-century puppet plays – after rejecting the Wandering...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2011

Kathleen Ferrier – A Tribute

This comes as a welcome pendant to the Ferrier commemorations, marking the 50th anniversary of her death. As I just...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003

Thomas Jensen conducts Nielsen, Vol.2

In the early 1920s Nielsen heard the Copenhagen Wind Quintet rehearsing some Mozart and was moved to compose his enchanting...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1996

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