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(A) Brain Miscellany

There are many treasures here, but one or two are, alas, flawed. Brain did not record the Haydn Concerto commercially....

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Inventions - Duos for Violin and Cello

If you're put off by the idea of a whole CD of just violin and cello (Aude Capuçon only joins...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2006

Monastic Song - 12th Century Monophonic Chant

A new recording of twelfth-century monody is always to be welcomed. We can now distinguish the different styles of at...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1998

Moriz Rosenthal The Complete HMV Recordings 1934-37

The prospect of some 20 hitherto unheard recordings by the legendary Moriz Rosenthal, a pianist admired by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Hugo...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987

German Trumpet Concertos

Our first DAT cassette review published in September (page 420) featured Ludwig Guttler playing Mozart and Haydn. He is a...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/1987

Schumann: Orchestral Works

I return to these perfonmances with greater pleasure each time. Sawallisch has the balance just right: a classical rigour and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1989

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1

I reviewed Vol. 2 of Zukerman's ongoing RCA series recently ((CD) RD60740, 12/91), and enjoyed it for its vivid yet...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1992

Guitar Recital

This was a curiously compiled programme even in 1975: then, as now, there were several available versions of the integral...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1988

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio; The Seasons

An account from emigre Russians of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio as moving as any and generally as finely played. Not that...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1999

Bortkiewicz Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Along with a host of fellow composer-pianists, Sergei Bortkiewicz left Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule, ending up,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2002

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