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Beethoven Piano Sonatas 4, 22, 23 & 25

The Appassionata comes up first and the E flat Sonata, Op 7, last in the tracking, presumably because the Appassionata...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/2001

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

The close but contrasted relationship between these two symphonies makes it a most desirable coupling; yet as one surveys the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1991

Rubinstein, A Cello Sonatas

Brahms, who had a high regard for Rubinstein, was said to wish that he took more trouble with composition. It...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2009

Gombert Magnificats 1-4

Peter Phillips is surely right to describe Gombert as the Flemish Renaissance master who least deserves the epithet ‘minor’. Tradition...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2001

Italian Orchestral Works

Riccardo Muti takes time out here to present some of the lesser known, rarely heard orchestral scores of his fellow...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1994

Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Karl Böhm

Noting, perhaps, that it was the Feast of the Assumption, Karl Böhm ended his Salzburg Festival concert on August 15,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2004

Nielsen Complete Piano Works

Not so long ago, Nielsen’s piano music was comparatively rarely found on disc, aside from isolated issues of selections such...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2009

Cavalli (Gli) Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne

In 1637 the first public opera house in the world, the S Cassiano in Venice, opened its doors. Cavalli’s first...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2007

Dvorák Stabat Mater

In an interview included as the final track of this pair of discs, Robert Shaw regrets that there have been...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2000

Verdi (I) due Foscari and Attila

I due Foscari won a respectful hearing on the occasion of this rare revival in 1988, with a warm reception...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2005

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