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Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Exploring the inner life of sound was central to Gérard Grisey’s musical thinking. He initiated the ‘spectral’ approach to composition...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2002

Solti Carnegie Hall Project

Over a 16-day period in June 1994 Sir Georg Solti supervised a series of rehearsals and study-sessions with an orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1995

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Multi-faceted musician and now courageous political figure, Daniel Barenboim’s star burns more brightly than ever, and never more so than...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2005

A Varietie of Lute Lessons

A Varietie of Lute Lessons, compiled by Robert Dowland, was the last book of lute tablature to be published (1610)...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/2000

Brahms (The) Late Piano Works

I once interviewed a pianist who explained his tendency towards slow tempi as having to do with the definition in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2008

Schubert Works for Violin and Piano

Gidon Kremer and Valery Afanassiev enter a hotly contested area with this new release of works for violin and piano...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 3/1992

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; Octet

Daniel Hope has a chameleon-like ability to transform his style to fit every new recording. Often it’s revelatory, as in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2007

Haydn Cello Concertos

Admirers of Han-Na Chang won’t be disappointed here; for someone still only in her mid-teens, she plays not only with...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/1998

Prokofiev Cinderella; Symphony No. 1

It is good to have Andre Previn’s 1973 set of Romeo and Juliet restored to circulation at such a reasonable...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1996

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 and Lieder

Brahms's song of the dying girl ''Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer'' recalls with tender pathos the ghostly half-remembered outline of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1994

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