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Mendelssohn String Quartets, Volume 2

A fairly palatable programme ('Volume 2' of an ongoing Mendelssohn quartet cycle), one that despatches some delectable music with a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Avison Concertos

There were curious motivations behind these works: Thomas Roseingrave issued an edition of 42 sonatas of Scarlatti (London, c. 1739)...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1992

Rachmaninov Sonata for Piano No 1; Etudes-Tableaux

Having given us a Scriabin recording of rare commitment, Yuri Paterson- Olenich continues with a two-disc Rachmaninov set of even...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2009

Beethoven; Brahms; Mendelssohn Piano Works

he rugged contours and flinty edges that often defined Rudolf Serkin’s piano recordings took on more complex sonorous manifestations when...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2007

Puccini La bohème

The best recordings of La boheme from the 1950s to 1970s have occupied the high ground and it is going...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

After a career-threatening illness, Janina Fialkowska returns to the concert stage sounding supremely confident and assured. And here, in live...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2011

Haydn (Die) Schöpfung

With Gardiner’s first down-beat it is obvious that Chaos’s days are numbered. Not that ‘days’ (strictly speaking) are in question...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

R Strauss Die Liebe der Danae

Strauss thought that Die Liebe der Danae would be his last opera (he was 76 when he completed it in...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Mozart Arias

Mozartians have had the opportunity before to admire Soile Isokoski, in her recording 10 years ago of Così fan tutte...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/2005

Villa Lobos String Quartets, Volume 4

Composed in Rio de Janeiro, the Second of Villa-Lobos’s 17 string quartets dates from 1915 (the composer had begun sketches...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1999

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