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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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