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Turina Piano Works

Astonishingly, few of Turina’s 60 or so piano works have appeared on disc, which makes both these issues, well played...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1996

Telemann Pimpinone

Telemann first performed his intermezzo, Pimpinone, in Hamburg in 1725. By then he had been in charge of the famous...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1994

Schumann String Quartets 1 & 3

Schumann dedicated his Op. 41 Quartets to Mendelssohn, and was proud to find them very highly regarded by a musician...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1987

Wagner Opera Scenes & Arias

I still have a severe aversion to bleeding chunks of Wagner, which seem the worst way of listening to this...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1988

Brahms Lieder

The first impression here may be of something slightly outlandish. Perhaps it is that we hardly expect a voice of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

Some 20 years have passed since Davis's last Sibelius cycle, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Philips, now represented in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995

Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano

Polished, sensitive playing, well recorded; Dyachkov and Saulnier present Brahms’s musical argument with impressive clarity and understanding. After a time,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2003

Mieczyslaw Horszowski

Amazingly, this memorable recital was recorded in 1990 at the Wigmore Hall two days before Horszowski’s 98th birthday. Those of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1; Isle of the Dead.

This St Petersburg Philharmonic Hall production lacks bloom and tonal vibrancy. While the balance is an often compelling realization of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1999

Sibelius Orchestral Works

It is striking how the Sibelius Violin Concerto has inspired many young artists to give outstanding performances on disc, and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996

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