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Orff Carmina burana

In spite of the unfortunate sleeve design—shades of a Hollywood promotion and voluptuous in a cinematic way—Slatkin's is a very...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1995

Bach Concertos BWV971, 973, 974, 975 and 978

Forget about Bach in period costume, so to speak. Alexandre Tharaud offers unashamedly full-blooded pianism, using a Steinway Model D,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2005

Mendelssohn Piano Works, Vol. 4

He “liked it very much”, so wrote the 12-year-old Mendelssohn after introducing his recently completed G minor Sonata to the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 4

Wand's second recording of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony and Dohnanyi's first bring no particular surprises from the interpretative point of view...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1991

Beethoven Piano Trios 5 & 7

Newcomers to the English catalogue, the Mirecourt Trio are artists-in-residence at Grinnell College, Iowa, as well as busy concert-givers, with...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

Korngold Music from the Films

Erich Korngold was the pioneer composer of the Hollywood film score during the 1930s and ’40s when, working at the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2002

Bowen; Forsyth Viola Concertos

During the decade leading up to the First World War, York Bowen (1884-1961) was one of the brightest and most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2005

Vuori Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Harri Vuori (b1957) came relatively late to music, not starting to study until his mid-teens. His teachers included Heininen, Hämeenniemi...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2008

Bach Motets

In the booklet, Bo Holten and interviewer Mark Wiggins discuss the performance practice options open to modern performers in a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2009

Mozart Piano Music for Four Hands

Even more, perhaps, than the solo piano music, Mozart's piano duet works, with their inevitably rather thick and low-pitched textures,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1994

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