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Tchaikovsky String Quartets, Vol 1

I don’t remember a better-sounding string quartet recording; even listening on ordinary stereo equipment you’ll admire its fullness and resonance,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2010

Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas

I have enjoyed the discs which have so far come my way of Zukerman and Neikrug's ongoing series of Mozart's...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992

Puccini Tosca

I was at one of these 1957 performances, and shall never forget Corelli launching into “Recondita armonia”. It reached the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2006

Verdi Un Ballo in maschera

This is, justifiably, a legendary performance, not least for Panizza's conducting. It equals, if it does not surpass, that of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1994

Killmayer Heine-Lieder

The list of poets set by Wilhelm Killmayer reads like a roll-call of literary history, from the great German tradition...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 3/2003

Bach in Berlin

Frederick the Great’s Berlin is proving quite a popular hunting ground for the record companies, and here is another disc...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/1996

Liszt: Piano works

The Liszt Sonata situation is herewith much complicated. Hitherto it was dominated by three great interpretations, from Arrau (Philips 6768...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Ferko Stabat Mater

This disc marks the début appearance in the Gramophone database of the 53-year-old Ohio-born composer Frank Ferko, although his music...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2003

Cavalli Ercole Amante

In Germany, Britain (Handel at ENO, Monteverdi at WNO, La Calisto in 2008 at Covent Garden), and now the Netherlands,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 6/2010

Brian Symphony No 1, 'Gothic'

I write this a few days before the Gothic’s Proms premiere, its first complete performance in the UK for 31...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/1996

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