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Hermann Abendroth conducts Romantic Masterworks

I love the world of Rautavaara's Angel of Light, its ochre skies and changing weathers, its alternation of instrumental choirs,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Gounod Mass

Those who know the Hartemann performance, which still sounds well, may wonder why another recording was thought necessary—and from the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984

Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic

The ship's bell strikes three, and then—the terrible descent, as the crackle and thunder of crumbling wood plummets through brine...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Rachmaninov Works of Piano Duet

Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara have here selected the finest of Rachmaninov's four-hand piano music, leaving the prospect of a...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1 etc

I have only listed two of the 18 currently available alternatives of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto (1959) as they are...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Chopin - Piano Works

Here is a well-planned Chopin recital, wonderfully recorded in a suitably resonant acoustic, and full of warmth, expressive character and...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1999

Brahms/Mendelssohn Piano Quartets II

Mendelssohn’s B minor Piano Quartet may not be in the same league as the Octet that followed a few months...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1998

Vaughan Williams Symphonies 4, 5 & 9

I recall being decidedly underwhelmed by Sir Andrew Davis’s Teldec coupling of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies on its initial...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Brahms String Quartets

Brahms is fortunate here in that both Hungarian and American contenders immediately recognize—and respond to—the warm and vulnerable human heart...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1993

Turina Andalusian Concertos

This unusual tribute to Turina features two first recordings and some more familiar works, with Isidro Barrio as a hard-working...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2000

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