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Winterreise

The modern singer preparing his Winterreise has a decision to make along lines which probably never even presented themselves to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

Mendelssohn Complete String Symphonies

The late Hans Keller, shrewdest and most controversial commentator on music, used always to say that the composer who wrote...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2010

Mahler Symphony No 9

New recordings of the Ninth were once major events in gramophone history. This was the work Leonard Bernstein sought to...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Mozart Flute Quartets

The flute quartets are not among Mozart's more popular works and I'm even very doubtful if he really wrote the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Arensky Piano Trios

Arensky's First Piano Trio has been recorded quite frequently, and with good reason. The melodic and some of the harmonic...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2000

D. Stoll Reflections on Vedic Scriptures

A Chinese Poet speaks Chinese. But what does he say? (rough paraphrase of Schoenberg). In light of recent letters to...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1994

M-A. Charpentier Medée

When I reviewed the three-LP set of Charpentier's Medee last November, I had not heard the final commercial pressings and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1985

Arthur Moreira Lima plays Piazolla

Here is music for those who delight in intricate and protracted seduction. Astor Piazzolla’s Tangos, brilliantly transcribed from bandoneon to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999

Bach Goldberg Variations

Andreas Staier is clearly in love. Having walked out with Anthony Sidey’s copy of a giant 1734 Hass harpsichord in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2010

Elena Riu - Salsa Nueva

‘Vibrant salsa beats meet contemporary classical piano music,’ explains the cover, ‘commissioned and played by Elena Riu,’ the Venezuelan-born ‘pianist,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2005

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