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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

It was in the mid 1960s that Bruno-Leonardo Gelber began to make a name for himself with a number of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1 & Paganini Rhapsody

Ashkenazy's Rachmaninov cycle with Haitink has not, I think it would be fair to say, been generally rated an improvement...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Villa-Lobos: Works for Guitar

Wolfgang Lendle, who burst upon the international scene a few years ago with his pyrotechnical variations on Paganini's Caprice No....

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1989

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

This Lyon Opera staging was presented at the 1985 Edinburgh Festival, when Gardiner told me that he had spotted 470...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1996

Walters Song of the Heart

All first recordings, these are not announced formally as an 80th birthday present to their composer, but if the timing...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2009

Hadley/Sainton Choral Works

There's a powerful, brooding melancholy pervading every bar of Patrick Hadley's 1931 symphonic ballad, The Trees so High; indeed, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1993

Georges Thill sings French Opera Arias

This seems to be a spin-off from the five-LP Thill issue that was welcomed in November 1985 by JBS, who...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989

Schoenberg Gurrelieder

Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder has such an implacably dark heart that it’s possible to feel – even in a performance as fine...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2011

Schubert: Works for Violin and Piano

Although these are unquestionably performances of impeccable musicality and taste, I found that Goldberg's tendency to underplay his part at...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1990

Concertos for Trumpet

Finnish trumpeter Jouko Harjanne, the third major young Scandinavian virtuoso of the instrument to have emerged in recent years alongside...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1996

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