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Brahms/Schumann Requiems
The new version of Brahms's Requiem is the least rewarding of the issues here. This is due to the recording...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Alkan/Henselt Piano Concertos
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Marc-André Hamelin | Martyn Brabbins
If, like me, you have derived a great deal of pleasure from the six previous issues in Hyperion's enterprising series,...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1994
Steven Kimbrough Lieder Recital
Dalton Baldwin | Steven Kimbrough
The accompanying booklet subtitles this collection ''Wiener Lieder'': I suppose the intention is to prove that in Vienna at least...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1995
Onslow String Quintets
Anner Bylsma | Kenneth Slowik | Lisa Rautenberg | Steven Dann | Vera Beths
If you happened to pick up this music on, say, the car radio, it would, I think, be quite a...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1996
Chadwick/Barber Orchestral Works
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
Adventurous collectors may well have already investigated George Whitefield Chadwick's Second Symphony from 1883-6 when it appeared on New World...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994
Raff Orchestral Works
Bernard Herrmann | London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Swiss-born composer Joachim Raff (1822–82) saw himself as a man with a historical mission: to fuse the music of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1990
Rubinstein: PIano Music, Vol.2
It is said that Anton Rubinstein's ambition in life was to be regarded firstly as a composer and secondly as...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1990
RAVEL; SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios (Sitkovetsky Trio)
Much admired in these pages for their interpretations of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the Sitkovetskys make their first foray into French...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021
ALKAN 11 Pieces Dans Le Style Religieux., Etude Alla-Barbaro (Mark Viner)
I absent-mindedly loaded this disc into my CD player and promptly forgot about it. The next day I powered up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022
MONTGEROULT Études (Clare Hammond)
Where will Clare Hammond pop up next? If she is not championing new works and recording their world premieres, she...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022
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