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Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4; Piano Sonatas Op.109 & 110

'Her playing combines extreme exploitation of force, of masculine sculpting of tone, with the utmost lightness and elasticity of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2000

Brahms & Schubert Cello Sonatas

Personality aplenty in a perky Arpeggione that stretches Schubert’s amiable attitude to almost jovial proportions. Volger’s 1724 “Hausmann” Stradivari cello...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998

Reger Orchestral Works

Anthony Payne’s bold elaboration of sketches for Elgar’s projected Third Symphony (NMC, 3/98) had a little-known precursor in the so-called...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

English Church Music & Favourite Christmas Carols: King's College Choir

It is probably not too much to say that the distinctively modern style of choral singing was created at Cambridge...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Elisabeth Schumann

There is a lot to be said for exercising the right to silence when it comes to less-than-excellent records (or...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Walton Christopher Columbus; Hamlet and Ophelia

Walton denied his film and play scores had any lasting value, yet even when he was battling against the clock...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2005

Beethoven Piano Trios

Growing older doesn’t always mean growing wiser‚ though in the case of the Beaux Arts Trio and Beethoven the passage...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Bach Partitas, BWV825-830

As a colleague of mine once neatly put it (about another artist), I like the way Haugsand plays the notes;...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1995

(A) Sheaf of Songs from Ireland

A likeable and unusual programme, with eight songs by Stanford all having character, and Bax’s arrangement of O dear, what...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Dvorák: Symphonies 7-9

The essence of Marriner's performance of the New World is shown at the very opening, where he creates an elegiac...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

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