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Review of Music for Clarinet, Piano & Viola

Music for Clarinet, Piano & Viola

Daniel Wayenberg | Henk de Graaf | Itamar Shimon

Canal Grande

Besides their separate concert platform activities, Wayenberg, de Graaf and Shimon all teach at the Rotterdam Conservatory—hence, no doubt, their...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1993

Review of BRAHMS Double Concerto

BRAHMS Double Concerto

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Jeremy Denk | Joshua Bell | Steven Isserlis

Sony Classical

Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms’s interpretatively perilous Double...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

Review of BRAHMS Viola Sonatas

BRAHMS Viola Sonatas

Lars Vogt | Rachel Roberts

Avi

Though Brahms’s Op 120 Sonatas were composed for clarinet and piano, they belong just as firmly to the viola repertoire....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2011

Review of Brahms Symphony No 2; Schumann Julius Caesar Overture

Brahms Symphony No 2; Schumann Julius Caesar Overture

London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi

Chandos

As in the two previous issues of this Brahms symphony cycle Chandos have provided a rarely played work by Schumann...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Review of Brahms Symphony No. 1; Schumann  Piano Concerto

Brahms Symphony No. 1; Schumann Piano Concerto

Jorge Bolet | Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC Legends

Virtually every conductor worth his salt has recorded Brahms’s First Symphony. But Klaus Tennstedt’s and the London Philharmonic’s performance, taken...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2009

Review of Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Kempff

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Kempff

Wilhelm Kempff

Great Pianists of the 20th Century

We owe it to Alfred Brendel that this first of three Kempff collections planned for the new Philips Great Pianists...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1998

Review of Brahms & Schumann: Complete String Quartets

Brahms & Schumann: Complete String Quartets

Melos Qt

DG

Apart from the Takacs Quartet, whose spirited, youthful account for Hungaroton/Conifer (4/88) of Schumann's three quartets was marred by inferior...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1989

Review of C SCHUMANN Piano Works(De Beenhouwer. Witoschynskij)

C SCHUMANN Piano Works(De Beenhouwer. Witoschynskij)

Ira Maria Witoschynskyj | Josef de Beenhouwer

Dabringhaus und Grimm

These two CDs focus on an area of Clara Schumann’s output which is every bit as interesting (some would say...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2019

Review of Brahms; Schumann - Liaisons, Vol 2

Brahms; Schumann - Liaisons, Vol 2

Dejan Lazic

Channel Classics

That Dejan Lazic is a musician full of ideas and refreshing individuality is not in doubt, and the programming here,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2009

Review of Brahms & Schumann: Piano Trios

Brahms & Schumann: Piano Trios

Israel Piano Trio

CRD

As CDs are not cheap, it's scarcely surprising that collectors want quantity as well as quality. So the Israel Trio...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

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