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Beethoven; Schumann Piano Works

Jonathan Biss is a 23-year-old American pianist, winner of sev-eral awards, and heard here in EMI’s Debut series his performances...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2004

Prokofiev String Quartet No 2

This disc is presented as if Prokofiev’s Second String Quartet were its main attraction, but it does in fact contain...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2003

Scandinavian String Music

By comparison with the recent Guildhall Strings anthology (RCA, 3/92) which duplicates the Holberg Suite, the Two Elegiac Melodies and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1992

Franco Battiato Shadow, Light

An easy listen that toys with a comfortable mysticism. Franco Battiato’s music is warmly harmonized, hazily atmospheric and utterly synthetic....

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Mahler Symphony No 4

What no one will deny is the amazing unanimity and precision of the playing here and the superlative quality of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2009

Invenzioni e Stravaganze

Italian 17th-century violin music seems to be a bit of a growth area on CD at the moment, and quite...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2000

Gluck Orphée et Euridice

In spite of the French title, and the conductor known for his interest in period performance, this is not the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

The Kreisler Collection 1921-25

Fritz Kreisler's art does not travel comfortably into the 1990s, it's far too angst-free for our troubled age, too unequivocally...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Martinu Julietta

How could one describe the fascination of Martinu's Julietta to someone who has never heard it? One could begin, perhaps,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1993

Brahms/Schumann Chamber Works

First, the instruments themselves, both from Washington’s Smithsonian Museum – the legendary Stradivarius once owned by the great Belgian cellist,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996

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