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Prokofiev Symphonies

As ever, Levine's musical credentials are impeccable. The required elements are all duly in place, his choices sound, his ear...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1995

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Op 35

It has been fascinating to study Mutter's live recording of a performance I heard in the Grosses Festspielhaus at Salzburg...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

Haydn Piano Concerto in D; Schubert Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

Günter Wand’s years with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, lasting from the Second World War up to 1974, predate those...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2005

Schubert Piano Sonata, D894

Whereas the catalogue's other contenders couple Schubert's so-called 'Fantasy Sonata' in G with something else, from this Russian-born, French-domiciled pianist,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1994

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 3

Handel's first published concertos appeared in 1734 though the music which comprises the Op. 3 set is almost certainly much...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1983

Alfabeto

Alfabeto is a system of notation used in music for the five­course (‘Baroque’) guitar. Letters of the alphabet indicated chords...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Roman: The Swedish Mass

Johann Helmich Roman was a gifted Swedish contemporary of Bach and Handel. Most of his active life was spent in...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1990

Chaconne

Seiffge presents the D minor Partita in its entirety (not simply the Chaconne), adding implied basses that Bach could not...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1991

Belorussian Series, Vol.2 - Yevgeni Glebov

Sometimes a 'provincial' composer turns out to have a compellingly original voice—witness the Georgian Kancheli, represented on two previous Olympia...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Rozsa String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 and No. 2, Op. 38; Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 15a

Don’t expect this to sound like Ben Hur! Miklós Rózsa’s string quartets with their classical form‚ emphasis on thematic development...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

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