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Brahms Chamber Works

To be given the Clarinet Trio as well as the two sonatas is generous measure in itself. So how good...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993

Mahler Symphony No 6

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony may well be the Sixth of first choice, sonically and interpretatively....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2006

Frankel Curse of the Werewolf

This well planned CD is a welcome reminder of a once familiar occurrence when composers switched at the flick of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2006

In Like Flint/Our Man Flint Original Soundtracks

Two new albums from Varese Sarabande find the mercurial Jerry Goldsmith operating in a particularly droll mode. The first release...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 12/1998

Stepan Rak Dedications - Guitar Works

Stepan Rak is a brilliantly virtuoso guitarist and an ingenious inventor of sounds that one never dreamed could be drawn...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1990

Couperin Works for Viole

It’s curious that to those in the style-conscious realm of early music the contemporary ‘accent’ of a performer is immediately...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 4/2003

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Early Recordings

If I had to demonstrate to a young, sceptical collector just why so many of us were enchanted by the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1990

Elgar Symphony No 3 - Sketches & Commentary

Elgar left 130 pages of sketches for his Third Symphony and they have haunted the composer, author and critic, Anthony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1998

Szymanowski Violin Concertos

These glorious concertos have been less well served on record than they deserve, so these two performances fill an important...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1987

Aho; Nielsen Clarinet Concertos

There are eight or so modern accounts of the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto in the catalogue, plus a few no less...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2007

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