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BRUCH Piano Trio. String Quartet. Romance. 4 Pieces
It’s funny to think that Max Bruch was once viewed as a modernist. But when his Op 5 Piano Trio...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW21
Borodin/Tchaikovsky String Quartets
The Brodsky Quartet has a good feeling for the structure of both these works; it would be still more effectively...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1991
Bach Cello Suites 1-6
This new batch of EMI Double Fortes (two discs offered for the price of one) again demonstrates the depth of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2001
Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 4
Authentic Orchestra | Derek Solomons
Schumann's symphonies have so often been berated for their poor orchestration that there is a particular case for seeing, or...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990
Choral and Vocal Works
How good now and again to escape the highways for discoveries like these—especially in the case of Lili Boulanger (younger...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1990
HANDEL Israel in Egypt
‘In this oratorio Handel saved his successors trouble by writing his own additional accompaniments,’ noted Winton Dean in his classic...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
Dvorák & Bruch Violin Concertos
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Tasmin Little | Vernon Handley
It was Classics for Pleasure on their Eminence label that in 1984 first promoted a major recording by Nigel Kennedy....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1990
Barber & Bruch Violin Concertos
Anne Akiko Meyers | Christopher Seaman | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Anne Akiko Meyers is a new name to me and I must say I like what I hear. The Barber,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1989
Tchaikovsky Chamber Works
Gary Hoffman | Margaret Batjer | Rocco Filippini | Salvatore Accardo | Sylvie Gazeau | Toby Hoffman
Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence may not be completely idiomatic chamber music, but a good deal of it works well in...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991
NIELSEN Organ Works
Bine Katrine Bryndorf | Torsten Nielsen
This CD is considerably enriched by Bine Bryndorf’s detailed and informative booklet-notes. Another plus point is that she plays the...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2017
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