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Ravel Orchestral Works

A Pavane of subtle persuasion is the only item here to give unalloyed pleasure. Bychkov is capable of galvanizing his...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1994

Brahms/Schubert Piano Quintets

I put this set on at the end of a day-long listening session, and by the time it had finished,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.

With eight down, and just one – albeit the most important one – to go, David Zinman and his Zurich...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Grieg Lyric Pieces Opp 54, 57 & 62

Daniel Propper (b1969, Sweden, now resident in France) has recorded the earlier four books of Lyric Pieces (9/08). I haven’t...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2008

Schumann Complete Lieder, Volume 5

With this superbly executed recital, Maltman leaps in a single bound into the front rank of Lieder interpreters today. Seemingly...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Biber/Schmelzer Sonatas

The glowing incandescence of Austrian mid-baroque instrumental music could hardly be more effectively demonstrated than in the choice of repertoire...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1996

Gismonti Saudações

Whether as composer or performer, Egberto Gismonti is nothing if not versatile in fusing Brazilian idioms with European procedures. Saudações...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2009

Mozart Divertimento, K334; March, K445

This recording of the last of the three fine divertimentos for strings and two horns that Mozart composed between 1776...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 4/1985

Elgar Chamber Works

The Chilingirian players start out with an immediate advantage over the Medici on Meridian reviewed in June (CD only, so...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Scheherazade is the kind of music one used to associate with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its early heyday under Stokowski...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1983

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