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Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 4, 6 & 8

The St Petersburg Quartet confirms its sinewy and extrovert approach in this second instalment of its Shostakovich cycle. The short...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2000

Bartók (The) Wooden Prince

Bartók's tonally effulgent second stage work suits the warm, texture-sensitive conducting style of Marin Alsop, who coaxes some stylish solos...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2008

Kraus Ballet Music

Whatever the putative business of the two Pantomimes on this disc of Joseph Martin Kraus’s theatre music, they take the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2007

Pol Plançon Complete Victor Recordings

The new, inquiring collector will find copious writings on the merits of Plancon's unique voice and art. Perhaps Lord Harewood...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994

Alban Berg Quartet 25th Anniversary Edition

Like most of today’s leading chamber ensembles, the Alban Berg Quartet do not approach twentieth-century repertory as Arditti- or Kronos-style...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1996

Larcher Naunz

‘Although I regard my pieces as transmutations of real ideas‚ events‚ feelings – these can only be reconstructed musically. Verbal...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Mozart: Piano Concertos, etc

The commentary in the booklet, while valiantly making special pleading for Edwin Fischer, admits that though he was undoubtedly ''a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1991

Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV1014-19

Jaap Schröder is an éminence grise of the Baroque violin, a name synonymous with the pioneering achievements of the Dutch...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2003

Wagner Lohengrin

Rudolf Kempe's strengths as a Wagner conductor are fully displayed in this recording. He can make quite extreme (though never...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987

Koussevitzky conducts Stravinsky and Mussorgsky

Here we have a performance of Pictures recorded in 1930 by the conductor who just eight years before had commissioned...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

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