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Second Viennese School

Most of these performances have already been available in CD reissues—the Webern compilation was reviewed in Gramophone as recently as...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1989

Borodin Orchestral Works

A CD made in France by a French company of, admittedly charming Russian tunes, but recorded in Moscow way back...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

Esteban Salas Cuban Baroque Music of the 18th Century

Esteban Salas, contemporary with Haydn, was born in Havana but in 1764 moved to the rival centre of Santiago de...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1997

Cage Roaratorio. Laughtears etc

Cage's Roaratorio was performed at the Proms for his seventy-fifth birthday in 1987. Those in the Royal Albert Hall were...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1994

Górecki Symphony No 3

The recording here is fairly well managed, with usefully defined strings and a secure bass line. Kazimierz Kord takes almost...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 10, 12 and 14

Boldly played and recorded, Hyperion’s Shostakovich cycle has been winning golden opinions. The individual performances might not efface memories of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2003

Ferneyhough Solo Works

From the mid-1970s onwards, music for solo instruments has been one of Ferneyhough’s central preoccupations. Though all of this music...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1999

Horszowski plays Bach

It was an act of bravery to issue these live recordings and it takes persistence on the part of the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 4/1999

Schubert Piano Trio in E flat

Rather as Schubert himself did in the closing months of 1827, the Florestan Trio swiftly follow their illuminating account of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2002

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Toscanini conducted Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite at his very first concert in 1896. Four years later he directed the Italian premiere...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

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