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Paganini Violin Caprices

The young German violinist Frank-Peter Zimmermann (who is 21) is quoted on the sleeve as saying ''I am by no...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 6/1986

Reicha Complete Wind Quintets, Vol.5

Berlioz has left a lively portrait of Reicha in Chapter 13 of the Memoirs (Gollancz: 1969), praising his counterpoint teaching...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. 3

Regular readers of Gramophone will already know that I admire Howard Shelley in this repertory, and this new disc also...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1993

Poulenc Orchestral Works

There is only one entirely new issue here, and even the word ‘new’ needs qualification, since this recording was made...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

Penderecki (Die) Teufel von Loudun

The Devils of Loudun is not for the faint-hearted. The real-life conspiracy to destroy the libertine priest Urbain Grandier in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2007

Debussy Orchestral Works Vol 2

This second collection of Debussy’s orchestral music that Jun Märkl has recorded for Naxos with the Lyon National Orchestra, of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2009

Ives Songs, Vol 1

These are the first two volumes of a projected complete songs of Charles Ives. They were recorded at Yale in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2008

Nathan Milstein - Early Columbia Recordings

This disc makes it clear why, 50 years ago, Milstein was regarded as the outstanding Bach player of his time:...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1992

Shostakovich arr Barshai String Quartets

Recordings of Shostakovich string quartet transcriptions from Dutch ensembles are emerging apace. Hard on the heels of that by the...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 8/2008

Mozart Requiem, etc

Mozart's Requiem may not be wholly Mozart's, as we all know: but performers certainly show no reservations in the power...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1991

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