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Mahler Symphony No 2

Delos has employed the designer from hell: its cover artwork is hideous and the rubbery jewel case partitions keep falling...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2000

Chopin; Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concertos

For all his talent Cuban-American Santiago Rodriguez remains a sadly inconsistent, unfocused pianist; almost as if his mood changed from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000

Viotti Sinfonia Concertante; Violin Concerto No. 4

Delightful music, delightfully played. The Sinfonia concertante is musically the more appealing of the two pieces, particularly the slow movement...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 7/1998

Schubert Winterreise

However many versions of Fischer-Dieskau singing Winterreise you may own, this one – televised in Berlin in 1979 – is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2006

Chopin Piano Sonatas

Here is a rare chance to savour all of Chopin’s piano sonatas played on contemporary instruments by his two preferred...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011

Bach French Suites

After his spectacular Rachmaninov and Scriabin performances, both on LP and in the concert hall, Bach was the last thing...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

Barry Guy After the Rain

Barry Guy has a knack of pitting harmony against relative dissonance and to great rhetorical effect. But it's no new...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Cenek Pavlík Violin Recital

A finalist in the 1974 Tchaikovsky Competition, the violinist Cenek Pavlic remains an obscure figure here in the West, and...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 4/1992

Schumann Humoreske; Novelletten.

Just about three years ago, Radu Lupu gave us a Humoreske as likely to haunt the memory as Richter’s. And...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1998

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

If I am not mistaken this is Stephen Kovacevich's first solo recording for six or seven years, and it demonstrates...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

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