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French Orchestral Works
Christopher Hogwood | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Gounod and Bizet make a good pair; Faust and Carmen are among the greatest of French operas, and the older...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991
Bruch Chamber Works
Philip Dukes | Robert Plane | Sophia Rahman
In his valuable study, Max Bruch (Gollancz: 1988), Christopher Fifield quotes the old composer as saying in 1906: ‘A young...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2002
STERNDALE BENNETT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes
The long-neglected British composer William Sterndale Bennett moved in the highest musical circles, being a close friend of both Mendelssohn...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
Mozart & Schumann Chamber Works
Budapest Quartet | Claudio Arrau | Clifford Curzon
These pleasant, but somewhat trivial and meandering works from Mendelssohn's adolescence demand little of performers other than a certain rhythmic...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Marcella Sembrich Recordings 1904-08
The pre-electrically recorded female voice is an instrument in its own right. If neither of the two representatives here is...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Toscanini conducts Tchaikovsky
Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Horowitz
A disc that spans half-a-century of Saint-Saens’s long career, from the colourful early Symphony, with its echoes of Mozart, Beethoven...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/1997
(The) Art of Anne Sofie von Otter
Topically‚ the recital opens with two excerpts from Carmen. Visitors to Glyndebourne and viewers of the television relay will have...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Presenting Joshua Bell
Encore pieces, in longish sequences, do of course belie their original nickname; but must surely be ever welcome when they...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
Beethoven Edition, Vol.11 - Early Quartets
Amadeus Qt | Hagen Qt | Mendelssohn Quartet
First, a suggestion for a Christmas musical quiz. Put on the last track of the third disc in this significant...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
Yehudi Menuhin - (The) Violin of the Century
Yehudi Menuhin is one of the most richly documented musicians of the 20th century, at least in sound and word....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2006
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