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Conversations with Bill Evans

This extraordinary recital, in which Thibaudet brings his technical mastery and fine musicianship to music which has only lately been...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 6/1997

Chopin Piano Concertos

Winner of the 2005 Chopin Competition and with two highly acclaimed discs behind him already, Rafað Blechacz is a rising...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2009

Maxwell Davies Sinfonia; Sinfonia Concertante

This welcome reissue is of two of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s most rewarding orchestral compositions, which complement each other very...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2003

Shostakovich Choral Works

There have been fine recordings of Shostakovich's penultimate and antepenultimate opuses sung by Evgeni Nesterenko—indeed the Michelangelo Suite won a...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Rubinstein Kamennïy-ostrow, Vol 1

In 1853-54 he produced this set of musical portraits, character sketches of members of her court. Even if we could...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000

Brahms Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

This is uncommonly fine sounding Brahms. The recording‚ made in Toronto‚ is full and warm‚ with excellent balance between...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Schubert Lieder

This is a curiously, at times maddeningly, uneven recital. At his best Gorne is a persuasive, silver-tongued interpreter, at his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997

Górecki Chamber Music

Henryk Gorecki (b. 1933) has become one of the most significant exponents of what is often called 'the new simplicity'....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

Schumann Symphonies, etc

After the last war, Wilhelm Furtwangler was invited to conduct in Chicago, and although political pressures made his visit a...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Fauré: Orchestral Works

Faure was the first composer—ahead of Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius—whose music inspired by Maeterlinck's Pelleas et Melisande was to reach...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1988

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