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Corigliano (The) Red Violin Caprices; Thomson Three Portraits

This is another incarnation of John Corigliano’s Red Violin music. First the film and the Chaconne for violin and orchestra...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2008

Souster - Electric Brass

Tim Souster’s thoughtful and creative attitude to sound is well demonstrated by Equalisation. Echoes suggests an anarchic Malcolm Arnold, while...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1999

Beethoven Piano Trios, Nos 5 'Ghost' and 6

Schubert is foreshadowed in the third movement of the Sixth Trio. Beethoven originally conceived it as a minuet but then...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2005

Norwegian Violin Favourites

The best-known piece here is Svensen's disarmingly memorable Romance, with its romanticised folk-like main theme (beautifully played here). Svensen, like...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2000

Waters Ça Ira

Roger Waters (if you don’t know) was bass player, chief lyricist and co-composer in Pink Floyd during the period when...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2005

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1

The Philharmonia under Giulini, the LSO under Szell, Jochum and the Berlin Philharmonic, Sawallisch and the LPO at its Brahmsian...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1998

Schumann Piano Works

The booklet reminds us that Mathe is known as a jazz saxophonist and a collaborator in dance-theatre and cabaret groups...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1998

R. Strauss Orchestral & Vocal Works

Three celebrated Karajan recordings of Strauss are brought together on CD at medium price here. In only one case would...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

Bach Goldberg Variations

Best be sceptical of CPE Bach’s tale (insomniac Counts, bags of coins and so on) about the Goldberg Variations. It...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2005

Beethoven String Trios, Volume 1

Generally, the exceptional flair and creative energy of Beethoven’s Op. 9 String Trios is winningly conveyed in these eloquent accounts...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

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