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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The B flat minor Concerto has been recorded so many times that you may justifiably ask if we really need...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

BOWEN Piano Trio. Clarinet Sonata. Rhapsody Trio

The revival in fortune (in the recording studio, at any rate) of the consistently warm-hearted and delectably polished music of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

HINDEMITH String Trio No 2 BOULANGER 2 Pieces for Piano Trio

I have a confession to make. Hindemith’s music really makes me angry. Not just mildly irritable but full-blown chucking-scores-at-the-speakers annoyed....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

BIBER Fidicinium sacro-profanum, Sonatas I-XII

First-class recordings of Biber’s Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas are hardly rarities but there are fewer sets of Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Les Plaisirs...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

BERG Lyric Suite SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

Composers can increase exposure – and income – by promoting orchestral versions of chamber compositions. But orchestras usually employ conductors;...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 6 & 7

Nannette Streicher’s new piano was a six-octave godsend for Beethoven. And the next year, 1808, he ran the full gamut...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2014

ARENSKY Piano Trios

This is the seventh in Hyperion’s series of Arensky discs, beautifully erasing Rimsky-Korsakov’s write-off (for him, Arensky was doomed to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

Jean-Christophe Spinosi: Miroirs

When Jean-Christophe Spinosi backed away from his specialty as a Vivaldi conductor a few years ago, one never envisioned him...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

The Italian Character

‘The Italian Character,’ reads the DVD’s blurb, ‘is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

In December 1987 Gramophone’s Edward Greenfield warmly reviewed Michala Petri’s landmark recorder version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, at the same...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014

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