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Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2

It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Such a triptych would have been unlikely before the advent of CD, where Tchaikovsky's powerful climaxes do not demand extra...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1990

Shostakovich Odna

Although long known through various selections, Shostakovich’s second film score Odna (“Alone”) is only now available complete. This 1931 Kozintsev/Trauberg...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2008

Cavallo Il Giudizio Universale

Volume 10, and one feels the surface has hardly been scratched. The series’ consultant musicologist, Dinko Fabris, who at the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2000

R. Strauss Orchestral Works, Vol.1

It has been an uplifting experience—hard on the heels of Sinopoli's quirky Strauss offerings with the same orchestra (DG, 11/92)—to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Haydn Missa in tempore belli;Salve Regina in G minor

From the Kyrie’s thunderous first forte, timpani rattling ominously, steely valveless trumpets scything through the texture, Harnoncourt never lets you...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1997

Adams & Reich Orchestral Works

Minimalism sounds good on CD. So hypnotic is the music's effect that the slightest blemish easily distracts, and the more...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Bridge String Quartets Nos 2 & 4; Phantasy Piano Quartet

Lucky the reader yet to make the acquaintance of Frank Bridge’s glorious Second Quartet! Written in 1915 and winner of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2005

Brahms Cello Sonatas

On June 24th of this year, Pierre Fournier would have been 80: no doubt Philips had been saving this recording,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

I had to give Jeffrey Tate's EMI performance of Grieg's Peer Gynt music a somewhat poor review last September, and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

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