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Dvorák/Tchaikovsky String Serenades

Of these serenades the Tchaikovsky needs no description: a favourite both of string players and listeners for just over a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Ravel orchestral works

There is much to admire in these performances under Abbado, who secures consistently polished and refined playing from the LSO....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

Moniuszko Overtures

Moniuszko is always bracketed with Smetana and Erkel, as the originator of a national style for Polish opera as they...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1993

Rossini String Sonatas

Perhaps if I were to join the ranks of this magazine's endlessly discriminating contributors to the Euridice correspondence, someone at...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1991

Brahms/Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

Nearly all the Toscanini Collection has been well-planned, but I cannot understand why Horowitz's performance of Pictures at an Exhibition...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Brian Legend; Songs

Approximately one quarter of Havergal Brian’s song output features on this superbly remastered issue, sung vividly in the Wigmore Hall...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2006

Fux Orchestral Works

These period-instrument performances augur well for a project to record the cycle of seven Partitas (Suites) which form Fux’s Concentus...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1999

Giroust Sacred Choral Works

Francois Giroust was a French contemporary of Haydn who enjoyed considerable success as a composer of sacred music. In 1756,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1991

Lars Vogt Piano Recital

I will not be the only person who remembers Lars Vogt as the fresh-faced and musicianly artist who came second...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Chopin Piano Works

Since recording much Mozart, Chopin and Schumann for Erato, Maria-Joao Pires has become a different and very great pianist. Here,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994

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