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Schubert: Orch Arrangements of Chamber Works

There have been some extraordinary statements about Mahler's string orchestra version of Schubert's D minor String Quartet: talk of 'revolutionary'...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1991

Brahms: Piano Works

Elisabeth Leonskaja, who was born in the Georgian capital Tiflis and now lives in Vienna, is a powerful and intelligent...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1991

Martinu Sacred Works & Madrigals

Recommended to all and somewhat urgently drawn to the attention of Martinu enthusiasts, for the programme is as rare as...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Handel Giulio Cesare

Handel’s most popular opera in modern times is notably difficult to stage in an effective manner that brings out all...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2008

C.P.E.Bach Flute Concertos

Victor Sangiorgio launches his Stravinsky programme with a superbly colourful account of the Piano-Rag Music, making a far more convincing...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Weber Piano Works, Vol. 4

This is an enterprising venture, with the four records embracing all Weber's sonatas, the best of his sets of variations,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1995

Bach Art of the Fugue

The Art of Fugue or ''complete practical fugal work'', as C. P. E. Bach described his father's giant contrapuntal achievement,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1990

Floating City - His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts

This is an ironic title at a time when the Adriatic tides seem to be washing ever more alarmingly over...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1999

Szymanowski Symphony No. 4; Lutoslawski Piano Concerto

It makes good sense to couple Lutoslawski’s most explicitly backward-looking later work with something comparably retrospective by Szymanowski. Even though...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1997

Moniuszko The Haunted Manor

The plot of The haunted manor is quite breathtakingly daft: it turns very largely upon whether the dwor, the manor...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1987

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