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Review of Remembering Jaqueline Du Pre

Remembering Jaqueline Du Pre

Jacqueline du Pré

EMI Classics

Originally shown on television in January 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s birth, this is the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2004

Review of Phillips, M Orchestral Works

Phillips, M Orchestral Works

BBC Concert Orchestra | Gavin Sutherland

Dutton Laboratories

Now here really is something! Along with Charles Ancliffe and Percy Fletcher, Montague Phillips (1885-1969) was one of the most...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/2004

Review of Haydn Scottish Songs, Vol 4

Haydn Scottish Songs, Vol 4

Haydn Trio | Jamie MacDougall | Lorna Anderson

Brilliant Classics

“Up in the morning early” is the title of one of these songs, and we gather from the singer that...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2007

Review of Encore! Travels with my cello, Vol. 2

Encore! Travels with my cello, Vol. 2

(Odyssey Papathanassiou) Vangelis | Julian Lloyd Webber | Nicholas Cleobury | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sven-Bertil Taube

Philips

Lloyd Webber's cello is off on its travels again: Catfish Row, Sweden, Turkey, France, Skye, Spain, Japan, 'Somewhere', Germany, India,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Review of Brahms & Mahler Piano Quartets

Brahms & Mahler Piano Quartets

Villiers Piano Quartet

Etcetera

All four members of this group are established chamber musicians, and their teamwork here explains why. It's just bad luck...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1989

Review of Crawford, R Works for Piano and Strings

Crawford, R Works for Piano and Strings

Edinburgh Quartet | Nicholas Ashton

Delphian

In 1947, while a student in London, the 22-year-old Robert Crawford composed his set of Six Bagatelles for piano, the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2008

Review of Mendelssohn Cello Works

Mendelssohn Cello Works

Robert Moeling | Terry King

Music & Arts

The best thing here is the Concerto, which is an arresting and inventive piece. The opening Allegro is conceived on...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985

Review of Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Philip Fowke | Wilfried Boettcher

Classics for Pleasure

This is a straight reissue, under a new catalogue number, of a record which originally appeared a little over two...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1987

Review of Beethoven Unknown Works, Volume 2

Beethoven Unknown Works, Volume 2

Armin Ude | Arthur Apelt | Berlin Chamber Orchestra | Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Radio Orchestra | Berlin Singakademie | Berlin Soloists | Berlin Staatskapelle | Brahms Trio

Berlin Classics

Much of the music here is only comparatively unknown, in that a careful trawl through the Gramophone Database...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1997

Review of Buxtehude Complete Organ Works, Vol 1

Buxtehude Complete Organ Works, Vol 1

Christopher Herrick

Hyperion

And still they appear! Alas, a few months late for the tercentenary celebrations proper, but very welcome nonetheless, here is...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 7/2008

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