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Szigeti & Bartók Washington Recital

Six months before settling for good in the USA, Bartok gave a recital in the Library of Congress with his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1991

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Not to be confused with Stephen Kovacevich, nor likely to be, Mikhail Kazakevich offers a Schubert of beguiling surface beauty...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Measha Brueggergosman - Night and Dreams

In a programme that moves, as in dreams, from land to land without seeming to notice, this delicately attuned soprano...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2010

Callas - First Official Recordings 1949-53

Those of us who first purchased the original 78rpm records of the Bellini items around 1950 will never forget the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000

Herbert von Karajan - Maestro for the Screen

Robert Dornhelm’s officially sanctioned documentary takes Rossini as an unlikely but apt key signature: from the opening of the William...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2008

Life of Sir Edward Elgar

These quite superb new recordings from the Medici Quartet and the pianist, John Bingham, have been released to mark the...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 11/1992

Beethoven Stg Qts Nos 1-6; Eurovisions Project

First, some thoughts on the Brodsky's programming concept. It was an imaginative idea to commission six new 'reflections' on the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2000

R. Strauss Wind Concertos

Hitherto I have recommended the splendid Michael Thompson recordings of the Richard Strauss horn concertos and indeed those wanting a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1989

Musgrave Pierrot Dreaming: Chamber Music for Clarinet, Vol 1

Victoria Soames Samek has already explored the clarinet­and­orchestra music of Thea Musgrave (Cala‚ 10/97); this first of two volumes of...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Delius Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills

After the deaths of two great interpreters of Delius – Sir Charles Mackerras and Richard Hickox – I often wondered...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 6/2011

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