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Brahms Piano Quartets Nos 1 and 3

Winner in 1994 of the prestigious, non-competitive Gilmore Award, the Finnish pianist Ralf Gothoni has never allowed solo commitments to...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1996

John Harle's Saxophone Songbook

The premise is that a saxophone is a ‘voice’, breath-borne and capable of vibrato, and voices sing songs. This goes...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1996

Ferneyhough Flute works

Brian Ferneyhough turned 60 on January 16, an event that has already seen new recordings of his music. This is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2003

Bizet Les Pêcheurs de Perles

We could hardly expect the Company to advertize their recording as being 'of the now discredited text', but possibly some...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Haydn (The) Creation

While none of these English Creations uses the same edition of the text, Robert Shaw's own version is drastically different....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1992

Rautavaara Violin Concerto; Symphony No 8, 'The Journey'

Rautavaara’s Eighth Symphony (1999) was among the first major new pieces available as a web-stream before it appeared on disc....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2005

Berg Violin Concertos; Lyric Suite; Orchestral Pieces Op 6

Rebecca Hirsch has won golden opinions for her performances and recordings of mostly contemporary music, and composers have been eager...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2002

R.Strauss Symphony in F minor, Op 12; Romanze in F

''Papa will open his eyes wide when he hears how modern the Symphony sounds''; but then 'Papa' was the arch-conservative...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Bach Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 1

To anybody from the era when Bach’s harpsichord concertos were habitually accompanied by a substantial body of strings, these recordings,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996

Fayrfax Complete Works, Vol. 2

Hot on the heels of their Gramophone Award-winning Fayrfax disc (6/95), comes Vol. 2 of this very worthwhile...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/1996

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