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Brahms Symphony No 4

Consistently satisfying cycles of the four Brahms symphonies are rare on record. A skilled Kapellmeister might establish a line through...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2009

Falla Nights & Sibelius Violin Concerto

Watching Maxim Vengerov sprint his way through Sibelius’s Violin Concerto underlined my principal reservation about concert music on video: its...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2000

Howells Orchestral Works

Howells isn't so much a victim of neglect as of selective amnesia. There must be many people who know and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1993

Bernstein; Bolcom Piano Concertos

After Hamelin’s fantastic virtuosity in the outrageously difficult Godowsky Studies on Chopin’s Etudes (Hyperion, 5/00) these two works for piano...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2000

Schumann Symphonies

Four very different views of Schumann the symphonist – Harnoncourt the stylized revisionist, Vonk the energetic traditionalist, Barenboim the burgeoning...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Strauss (Le) Bourgeois gentilhomme - Suite

Paavo Järvi has been making waves with his Telarc recordings from Cincinnati, but their distinctive mix of scrupulous musicianship and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2004

Busoni Music for Two Pianos

Busoni considered his Fantasia contrappuntistica his masterpiece for piano and produced no fewer than four versions of it – the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2006

Bach Musical Offering

There is a pleasing unity in this performance where the discrete elements of ricercar, canon and trio sonata are each...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/1999

Satie Piano Works

''His was the inventor's mind par excellence … Simply and ingeniously Satie pointed the way, but as soon as another...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1989

Organ Music from North Germany

Along with Buxtehude these three composers were the most important in North German organ music at the start of the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1993

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