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Nicholas Sackman String Quartet No 2; George Nicholson String Quartet No 3

These are quartets of substance from two British composers, both in their late forties. If the Nicholson impresses most through...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1998

Verdi Gustavo III

Operatic scholars like nothing better than scurrying around unearthing early drafts of well-known operas, a practice – as on this...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004

Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes

The atmosphere of Brahms’s settings of these charming texts of Georg Daumer (free adaptations of Russian, Polish, and Hungarian originals)...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

Silver Apples of the Moon

Anyone with a penchant for Warlock or Moeran will surely lap up the opening item on this enterprising collection, namely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1998

Chadwick Symphony No 2; Symphonic Sketches

When Leonard Bernstein famously proclaimed George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) as ‘the kindergarten period of American music’it was more likely Bernstein...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 7/2005

Radulescu Piano Concerto

A cult figure in avant-garde circles, Horatiu Radulescu has produced a typically unorthodox piano concerto. The extreme harmonic and timbral...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1999

Dvorák Songs

Ivan Kusnjer’s marvellously sonorous delivery is captured with crystal clarity by the Supraphon technicians in an exceptionally well-balanced sound picture....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Schubert Symphony No 9

There was a time when I would buy a recording not knowing a note of the music, and rely on...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1991

Schubert Arpeggione Sonata; Beethoven Notturno

Though the current CD catalogue lists no less than four alternative versions of Beethoven's early-ish (1797) Serenade Trio for strings,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1990

Dreyshock/Kullak Piano Concertos

Hyperion’s adventurous exploration of little-known or unknown romantic piano concertos continues with two more first recordings, performed with the kind...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 10/1999

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