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Review of Kraus, J M Aeneas in Carthage orchestral highlights

Kraus, J M Aeneas in Carthage orchestral highlights

“A titanic composition by the standards of any period of musical history,” proclaims Bertil van Boer in his informative booklet-note,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2010

Review of Mozart Sonata in D for Two Pianos K448; Schubert Fantay in F minor D940

Mozart Sonata in D for Two Pianos K448; Schubert Fantay in F minor D940

The Labèque sisters offer a truly superlative account of the great F minor Fantasy in rich, warm-blooded sound. Rarely has...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008

Review of Liszt B minor Sonata; Schumann Fantasie

Liszt B minor Sonata; Schumann Fantasie

A distinctly satisfying coupling, this: “two of the absolute ‘Matterhorns’ of the two composers”, as Lars Vogt himself puts it,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2010

Review of Smetana Piano Works, Vol II

Smetana Piano Works, Vol II

We are so used to hearing the handful of really familiar Smetana works – The Bartered Bride, the string quartet...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2007

Review of Liederabend 1956

Liederabend 1956

This live recording from the 1956 Salzburg Festival captures Schwarzkopf’s art at its peak. It has always seemed an irony...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Review of Elgar/Walton String Quartets

Elgar/Walton String Quartets

Although the Elgar is probably the selling-point of this issue, the Walton String Quartet stands in greater need of the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Review of Ravel Piano Works

Ravel Piano Works

Romain Descharmes is a 29-year-old French pianist admirably attuned to the more subtle and elusive sides of Ravel’s genius. A...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2009

Review of Holst (The) Planets; Matthews, C Pluto

Holst (The) Planets; Matthews, C Pluto

Near the beginning of his EMI career Simon Rattle recorded his first The Planets. It is excellent, but next to...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006

Review of Bach Violin Sonatas

Bach Violin Sonatas

Bach's first biographer, Forkel, noted that the violin writing of the Sonatas, BWV1014-19 required a master to play it. Bach,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1989

Review of Lloyd, G Piano Concerto No 3

Lloyd, G Piano Concerto No 3

There was an old schoolboy conundrum: when is a concerto not a concerto? The answer, then concerned itself with Bach....

Reviewed in issue 3/1990


 

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