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Lourié String Quartets 1-3

Isolated recordings of works by the mysterious Arthur Lourie have for a while been whetting some appetites, mine certainly included,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1998

Mozart String Quartets, 'Six Haydn Quartets'

Mozart’s dedication of six quartet masterpieces to Haydn extends‚ in the hands of the Hagen Quartet‚ to Bartók‚ Janá¶ek and...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Brahms: Symphonies, etc

The Brahms symphonies are for me amazingly self-renewing works, which I can listen to time and time again without any...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

J.C.Bach Overtures, Volume 2

Small-scale but elegantly fashioned, melodious and pleasurable music: no wonder that the London public in the 1760s and 1770s took...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1997

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Deutsche Grammophon has offered Karajan's performances of these four works before, drawn from various fill-ups recorded in the 1960s (SLPM139016,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1984

Grieg Violin Sonatas

Grieg's violin sonatas span his creative life, the first two dating from his early twenties, before his Piano Concerto, and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1993

Mozart Works for Violin & Orchestra, Vol. 2

This CD contains several little-known items and the first of these, the lyrical Adagio in E, was probably written as...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Chopin Etudes

Chopin’s 24 Etudes remain among the most cruelly elusive as well as formidable challenges. Pragmatic at one level (the mastery...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/0

Wagner Der fliegende Holländer

When Philip Hope-Wallace first reviewed the Sawallisch/Bayreuth set back in 1962 he suggested that you had to choose between the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

‘The accompaniments for Chopin’s concertos are perfect’, a veteran pianist claimed in an interview, ‘but you have to have the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/1999

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