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Moran Rocky Road to Kansas
Robert Moran is an eccentric figure in American music but his elegant, easily assimilable idiom should not be dismissed out...
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
Sylvia Sass Opera Arias
Adam Medveczky | Budapest Symphony Orchestra | Sylvia Sass
Singers must sometimes feel that they can't win. When they adhere scrupulously to the score they are accused of literalism,...
Reviewed in issue 2/1988
Brahms; Franck Cello Sonatas
Paolo Giacometti | Pieter Wispelwey
Having only an ordinary CD player, I can’t write about this as a Super Audio CD, but it sounds extremely...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2003
Saint-Saëns; Schumann; Tchaikovsky Cello Concertos
Andreas Brantelid | Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Michael Schønwandt
Andreas Brantelid, yet another brilliant cellist of the younger generation, plays this attractive group of works with an exceptionally wide...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2008
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Honeck)
Grafting local vines on to European rootstock is how the great American orchestras were first established and how many continue...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021
ONSLOW String Quartets
Born in Clermont-Ferrand of Anglo-French parentage (his father was a maverick MP who fled England to avoid prosecution, his mother...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2015
W BENNETT Sextet. Chamber Trio. String Quartet
James Dickenson | Jeremy Young | Leon Bosch | Nick Stringfellow | Villiers Quartet
William Sterndale Bennett completed his String Quartet in 1831; he was 15 and halfway through his 10 years of study...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
SAINT-SAËNS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Kantorow)
Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
The more I hear Saint-Saëns’s youthful symphonies, the more impressive they seem. If the various influences he absorbed are readily...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2021
Yoav Levanon: A Monument To Beethoven
Yoav Levanon is an 18-year-old Israeli-French pianist. This is his debut album for Warner Classics, a programme with the flimsy...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022
Hummel Piano Sonatas
This splendid issue is in its way as revelatory as Stephen Hough’s Gramophone Award-winning recordings of the piano concertos (Nos...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2004
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