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Messiah Remix

Is nothing sacred? When it came to sampling, stealing and re-spraying other people’s tunes, Baroque composers didn’t think so. I...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 1/2005

Mozart Violin Works

Philippe Graffin the violinist is rather at odds with Philippe Graffin the conductor. The violinist is in complete control of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2007

Verdi Aida

Tenors truly equipped to sing the role of Radames are few and far between. Caruso, Martinelli, Pertile, Lauri-Volpi, del Monaco...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Bartók; Dutilleux; Stravinsky Works for Violin and Orchestra

The press blurb tells us that Henri Dutilleux conceived his moody and impassioned nocturne Sur le même accord ‘to suit...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2005

Brahms: Symphony No.1

Muti's Philips recordings of the Fourth and Second Symphonies struck me as having many good qualities (6/89 and 3/90 respectively),...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

Rachmaninov Vespers

This is a first-rate bargain price recording of Rachmaninov’s sublime music (more correctly known as the ‘Vigil’ rather than ‘Vespers’)....

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Twin Spirits

Twin Spirits sets out to tell the oft-told story of the relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann, one of classical...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2009

Schoenberg String Quartets Nos 3 & 4

It has long been clear that Robert Craft likes his Schoenberg fervently abrasive. Even when – as here – recordings...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2010

Chopin Complete Etudes

Has there ever been a piano competition anywhere in the world without a Russian among its six finalists? Boris Berezovsky,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Schubert Piano Sonata, D958

This welcome addition to the steady trickle of John Ogdon releases finds him in an area with which he is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2004

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