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Gounod Symphonies Nos 1 and 2
John Lubbock | St John's Smith Square Orchestra
Gounod’s symphonies, boomed the first edition of Grove magisterially, “are of no importance”; and this dismissive judgement has persisted until...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997
Pfitzner conducts Schumann
Berlin State Opera Orchestra | Hans Pfitzner
The Second Symphony is a performance from another age. Many discerning writers have spoken of Pfitzner's music-making with some awe...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1992
Parlour Pieces, Vol. 2
''Parlour Pieces'', yes; that is, in the days when parlours had not only pianos but a very decent likelihood of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
Nielsen/Svendsen Chamber Works
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble | Kenneth Sillito
Mendelssohn's youthful Octet obviously meant a great deal to Svendsen though his own essay in the medium, a product of...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994
Grieg; Saint-Saëns; Schumann Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley | Orchestra Of Opera North
What a good idea to add to that favourite among LP couplings Saint-Saëns’s most Bachian concerto, No 2. And the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2009
BRUCH A Scottish Fantasy (Bell)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell was in his teens when he first recorded the Bruch G minor and Mendelssohn concertos with Neville Marriner...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
BRUCH String Quintets and Octet
String players of a certain vintage might remember the excitement caused in 1991 by the publication of Max Bruch’s A...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2017
DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'
Daniel Dodds | Lucerne Festival Strings
Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024
Christian Li: Tchaikovsky
Christian Li | Nicola Eimer | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
Ever since Christian Li burst upon the scene in 2018 as the youngest-ever winner of the Menuhin Competition’s Junior Division,...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2025
BRUCH String Quintets. Octet
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players
Who would have thought, back in the 1990s, that we would one day have competing recordings of Bruch’s string quintets...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021
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