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Beethoven Late String Quartets

I should say straight away that this is a most impressive set and contains some of the most searching late...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1983

Holliger Scardanelli-Zyklus

Heinz Holliger's brilliance as an oboist has long tended to overshadow his achievements as a composer, so it is all...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1993

Bax Symphonies Nos 1 and 7

While not for one moment relinquishing my admiration of or gratitude to the late Bryden Thomson's Bax recordings, this Lyrita...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1992

Keetman & Orff Christmas Music

Anyone who has been exposed to Carl Orff's music teaching methods will find this all very familiar. Gunild Keetman's Christmas...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1990

Smetana (The) Bartered Bride

This cheap label round-up of poor quality Czech TV broadcasts from the 1980s features those alternately cute and annoying travelogues...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2006

Albéniz Piano Works

Here, for the first time, Albeniz’s masterpiece, Iberia, appears on a single CD, played with immaculate musical taste and enviable...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2000

Romantic Strings

This outstanding recital serves to introduce a remarkable new Russian/Israeli violinist, of whom I am sure we shall hear much...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1990

Fuchs Piano Trio

‘Fuchs is a splendid musician. Everything is so fine and deft, so charmingly invented that one always takes delight in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2006

Daugherty Jackie O

“Here is the news, brought to you in heroic couplets…by the opera composer!” was how The Independent once greeted the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 2/2010

Chopin Piano Works

Like many other pianists, 33-year-old Alexei Volodin is an international competition-winner and has already played with a dazzling array of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2010

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