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Rachmaninov/Scriabin/Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

In August an almost identical collection of Russian piano sonatas, excluding Scriabin's Ninth, was reviewed by DJF. There, the pianist...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994

Classic Kennedy

Kennedy is a people's violinist to contrast with say, Heifetz, or Kreisler or David Oistrakh, all of whom were 'violinists'...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Covent Garden Gala Concert

Galas are in the bloodstream at Covent Garden; they have been giving them there, on and off, for over a...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

What a wonderful opera it is after all. There is now no question of listening to it for 'the big...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Berg; Schoenberg Piano Works

Most CDs featuring Second Viennese School piano music include Webern’s brief but significant contributions alongside Schoenberg and Berg. Roland Pöntinen...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2006

Bernstein: Orchestral Works

There are few more sheerly exciting gramophone moments than the sound of the New York Philharmonic brass and percussion tearing...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos 18 & 24

A rhythmically and tonally firm start to the B flat major Concerto from Claudio Abbado and the LSO initially seems...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1988

Schütz Kleiner geistlichen Concerten

Much is made of the political circumstances in which Schutz wrote his small-scale works, not least because the composer rarely...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1997

Nielsen String Quartets, Volume 2

Nielsen wrote five quartets in all between 1882 and 1919, although two of them exist in different versions, and the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2000

Nin/Piazzolla Oblivión

‘Oblivion’ is a curious sobriquet for a recorded collection, and Piazzolla’s brief opening piece of this name is a disarmingly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1999

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