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Schubert - Complete Piano Duets, Volume 2

Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow are sensibly presenting their survey of Schubert piano duets in seven varied recitals, each with...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1999

Lisa Della Casa sings Richard Strauss

''Bohmerl'' was Strauss's endearing diminutive for the conductor who did most to propagate the composer's music during his lifetime and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Adams Doctor Atomic Symphony

Guide to Strange Places is a great title that’s been waiting for a piece. Whether John Adams’s 2001 Technicolor 20-minute...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 9/2009

Schubert Impromptus; Moments Musicaux; Allegretto

French pianist David Fray, at 28 years old already acclaimed for an intensive and dazzling career, now makes a Schubert...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2009

Frank Martin Orchestral Works

No quarrels with these performances, which are lively and expert enough even if the strings are a little wanting in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1994

Bach Wohltemperirite Klavier

Here are two recent issues of Book 1 of Bach's 48 or, more properly Das Wohltemperierte Clavier. Recently issued, certainly,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1990

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5

The Emperor is the only Beethoven piano concerto not to have been premiered by Beethoven himself. By 1811 his deafness...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2008

Schumann: Cello Works

Most versions of the Cello Concerto are coupled with other orchestral pieces: Mischa Maisky's with a rather mannered account of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1988

Thow Chamber Works

Although everyone knows the Karelia Suite and the Overture, which Sibelius published separately as his Op. 10, no one will...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1998

Ebe Stignani (1903-1974)

When I first heard Norma at Covent Garden in 1952, I have to confess (if confession it be) that it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

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