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Webern Orchestral, Vocal & Chamber Works

It is almost exactly a quarter of a century since Pierre Boulez recorded his complete Webern survey (now available on...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Dvorák Violin Concerto; Piano Quintet

What an excellent idea for the brilliant young violinist Sarah Chang to couple her warm and powerful reading of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

Bach St John Passion

Jos van Veldhoven can be certain that his new account of the St John Passion is the most beautifully packaged...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2005

Bax & R. Clarke Viola Sonatas

Rebecca Clarke, whose dates are 1886-1979, almost slipped through the net. This pupil of Stanford and once-eminent viola player has...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Brahms Ballades Op 10; Paganini Variations; Rhapsodies Op 79

Nicholas Angelich is an American pianist, trained in Paris, whose performances on this disc are of a wholly exceptional drama,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2006

Palestrina Masses & Motets, Volume 1

This is the second instalment of a series initiated several years ago (9/97). At the time the first volume appeared,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2001

Chambonnièes Suites, Pavannes & Preludes

I suppose there must must have been discs in the past entirely devoted to the harpsichord music of Chambonnieres but...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

Ireland String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; The Holy Boy

At the age of 14, John Ireland entered London’s Royal College of Music to study piano with Frederick Cliffe. Two...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1999

Brahms Symphony No.3; Tragic Overture

Karajan chooses a fairly brisk, business-like tempo at the outset of the Third Symphony, and there's little lingering over individual...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Cherubini Complete Keyboard Music

This is not quite the Complete Edition claimed, but the two discs do contain as nearly all Cherubini's piano music...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1992

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