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SCHUMANN Piano Concerto (Brendel)
Alfred Brendel | Simon Rattle | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
‘Next to … Liszt’s Variations on Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” … I found the neoclassicist/neo-baroque corset worn by Brahms...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2018
Hermann Abendroth conducts Romantic Masterworks
I love the world of Rautavaara's Angel of Light, its ochre skies and changing weathers, its alternation of instrumental choirs,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999
Bach Complete English Suites
Murray Perahia | Rudolf Buchbinder
Murray Perahia’s English Suites (his first Bach recordings) originally appeared as full-price individual releases, beginning with Nos 1, 3 and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2008
Max Levinson in recital
The most immediately striking thing about this disc is the wonderful piano sound. One can simply revel in the sheer...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 13/1998
The art of Itzhak Perlman
Perlman's coupling of concertos by Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ben Haim brings a heartfelt tribute to his Jewish background. These are live...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1993
Mozart: Orchestral Works
Brian Sewell | Charles Groves | Christopher O'Neal | English Sinfonia | Keith Puddy | Michael Baines
Let me start by getting a niggle out of the way and saying that I really can't see the point...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Paavo Järvi
Maybe because the sound is so chilly and uninviting I am left with a distinctly monochrome impression of Paavo Järvi's...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2007
Vainberg Orchestral Works
Algis Zhuraitis | Kyrill Kondrashin | Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | Timofei Dokshitser
Moisei Vainberg is a somewhat enigmatic figure in Russian musical life. He eludes English (though not American) reference books; in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1994
BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 1
For all the boldness of both the dots and their execution, the Elias Quartet observe a certain Classical propriety which...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2015
GRIEG; THOMMESSEN; SIBELIUS String Quartets
The quiet E minor chords that give Sibelius’s Voces intimae its nickname occur a minute and a half into the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016
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