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Brahms/Mozart Clarinet Quintets

If I wanted to buy either of these immortal quintets, my first choice would be a coupling that gave me...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1998

Cerha String Quartets Nos. 1-3; Eight Movements after Hölderlin Fragments

The non-European elements in these quartets are embedded deep in the musical sub-structure, with nothing stylistically incongruous about the results....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1999

Matthews, D Symphonies Nos 2 and 6

It is one thing for Vaughan Williams to have provided a moving meditation on his own hymn tune Down Ampney,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2010

Mozart Piano Concertos

For anyone with absolute pitch a performance such as this may disconcert. Probably the low pitch is historically right: the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1987

Clementi Piano Sonatas, Vol 5

Volume 5 of Howard Shelley’s exemplary cycle brings us sonatas from the late 1790s, a time when Clementi’s London was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2010

Piano 'War Horses'

Meridian offer a photo but no biographical information on Roger Press; and their recording set-up does him no favours either—a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Chopin Nocturnes, Mazurkas & Waltzes

This two-disc set of Chopin’s complete Nocturnes is a reissue of recordings made in 1968-69, coupled with a selection of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2001

Beethoven/Weber Chamber Works

Beethoven's Septet has been played and recorded in various ways—as an eighteenth-century serenade, as an early nineteenth-century symphony writ small,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994

Liszt Complete Années de Pèlerinage

On this generously filled two-CD set, Louis Lortie gives us Liszt’s complete Années de pèlerinage, repeating Book 2 (Italie), which...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2011

Barber Orchestral Works

Deals don’t come much more tempting than this mid-price offering from BMG France, even in the absence of English notes,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2005

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