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Brahms Cello Sonatas

With his pianist mother, Oxana, Dmitry Yablonski left the USSR in 1977 when he was 15. Besides their solo work,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1994

Messa per Rossini

Within days of Rossini's death on November 13th, 1868, Verdi proposed to his publisher Ricordi that a Requiem Mass be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1990

English Clarinet Concertos

I had not encountered three of the four composers here, so a bit of background detail first. Raised in Kirkby...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2006

Rosenberg plays Rosenberg

This three-CD set makes a valuable supplement to the new recording of the Fourth Symphony (reviewed on page 90). Only...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993

Aho Symphony No 12, 'Luosto'

Kalevi Aho claims the Twelfth (2002‑03) as his largest symphony (the BIS recording of No 8, however, is almost two...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2008

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios

Ashkenazy, Perlman and Harrell don't play the piano-trio arrangements of the Septet, or the Symphony No. 2 in D. Otherwise...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1987

Clifford Curzon - Recital

When Sir Clifford Curzon was always so reluctant to work in the recording studio‚ and then often rejected the results‚...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Mengelberg Edition Volume 1

In his chapter on Mengelberg in The Orchestra Speaks (London: 1937), the viola-player Bernard Shore recalls the great man conducting...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1991

Janacek Suite for Strings; Schubert arr Mahler Quartet No 14, 'Death and the Maiden'

“A ragbag of influences” is how John Tyrrell sums up Janácek’s early Suite for Strings in the first volume of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2008

Beethoven Symphony No 5; Shostakovich Symphony 5

Here are two more unique but imperfect documents of a fondly remembered, old-school maestro. Nowadays Barbirolli isn’t thought of as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2006

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