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Leclair Recreations de Musique

Leclair's two Recreations de musique were published in the mid-1730s. They are typical examples of French suites, that is to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1994

Pavel and Lazar Berman live in recital

Lazar Berman was born in 1930 in Leningrad, or St Petersburg as it is now again called. During the 1950s...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Mendelssohn/Schumann Piano Trios

There is value for money here in that we're given not only Mendelssohn's two piano trios but also Schumann's first...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992

The Young Menuhin Encores, Vol.1

Biddulph have been busy reissuing Menuhin's earliest recordings of short pieces, and their CDs have so far been planned in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Mahler Lieder

On its own account, putting comparisons aside, these are attractive propositions. Soffel has an individual, tangy mezzo, which she uses,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995

Rachmaninov Symphony 2

In my original review of this dramatic, totally unsentimental reading of a now-favourite symphony I had reservations about the digial...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1983

Brahms/Schumann Requiems

The new version of Brahms's Requiem is the least rewarding of the issues here. This is due to the recording...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Trails of Creativity 1918 - 1938: Music From Between the Wars

There are seven première recordings here, and two pieces that are not – the Korngold and Weill suites – are...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2003

Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel

Humperdinck’s old favourite is seen here in a production for Zurich Opera by the team of director Frank Corsaro and...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Mozart String Quintets, Vol. 1

In the classical chamber repertory, more than anywhere else, period-instrument performers find the going hard, competitively speaking: we are so...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1993

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