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Kabalevsky Cello Concertos; Violin and Piano Works

At first glance Kabalevsky's cello concertos seem to have many of the same expressive fingermarks as Prokofiev and Shostakovich without...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1994

French Piano Trios, Volume 1

There are nine available versions of Debussy's early and embarrassingly immature Trio including this new one – which says something...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

R. Strauss Don Quixote

Strauss asked his interpreters to play Salome and Elektra as if they were by Mendelssohn, Beecham, like Clemens Krauss, was...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1989

Mozart Complete Violin Concertos

What a good idea to include the violin concerto movements from the Haffner Serenade as a filler, rather than the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2000

Lassus Sacred Choral Works

Two aspects of Lassus come across with particular clarity here. First, as JM mentions in his helpful note, the clue...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1989

Rameau Orchestral Suites, Volume 2

This is the second in a two-volume anthology of orchestral suites by Rameau, played by Capella Savaria under the direction...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1997

Turnage Fractured Lines; Silent Cities

With Mark-Anthony Turnage now associate composer of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin working for Chandos, this cornucopia of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2003

Liszt Tasso. Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony

After listening to conducting like this, you might ask why the Romanian Silvestri, during his final decade in France and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

Pfitzner Orchestral Works

Reviewing an earlier issue in the CPO Pfitzner series (5/91) I noted ''the problematic nature'' of his orchestral music. This...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1993

The Busch Quartet play Brahms and Schumann

The 1942 Schumann recording is, for British collectors at least, a far rarer bird than the Brahms: it never enjoyed...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

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