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Piano Concertos
‘Arr. H. Lane Wilson’ was a familiar feature of song-recital programmes in the earlier years of the century. The tunes...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
Bach St Matthew Passion
1829 represents, for many, a symbolic rebirth of Bach as a composer whose music was to shape Western musical destiny...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2003
Huberman Complete Brunwick Recordings
Bronislaw Huberman | Paul Frenkel | Siegfried Schultze
Most collections of pre-electrical violin recordings contain a rather dreary procession of encore pieces. The American Brunswick company was rather...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Leo Borchard: Telefunken Recordings 1933-35
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Hans Reinmar | Leo Borchard
It’s all about timing. Eighteen months after the Berliner Philharmoniker elected the second Russian-born Chief Conductor in its 135-year history,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
Sing to Water
The Japanese pianist Kotaro Fukuma, now in his early thirties, begins this impressive album with his own arrangement of Smetana’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017
Moiseiwitsch - Rachmaninov recordings, 1937-43
Basil Cameron | Benno Moiseiwitsch | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Walter Goehr
No pianist other than the composer himself has been more intimately associated with Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
Great Pianist - Levitzki, Complete recordings Vol 1
If sheer old-fashioned charm is the ne plus ultra of musical achievement, than Mischa Levitzki (1898-1941) is a ‘great pianist’...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003
Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Deborah York | Stella Doufexis
This opulently arrayed set presents a record and film of Claudio Abbado’s final concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2016
Leonard Bernstein conducts Shostakovich
Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | RCA Victor Orchestra
Bernstein cultists tolerant of lowgrade presentation may be pleased to have this further evidence of his early prowess. The Gershwin‚...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2002
Rachmaninov Transcriptions
Alastair Mackie | Dódy Ashkenazy | Vladimir Ashkenazy | Vovka Ashkenazy
Having recorded a major part of Rachmaninov’s piano music, Ashkenazy continues with the piano transcriptions, a cornucopia of teasing sophistication...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002
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