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Music for Wind Ensemble
As Walter Liebhart, the author of the excellent notes points out, nineteenth-century wind music is never far from the operatic...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Vivaldi/Naudot/Sammartini/Scarlatti - Virtuoso Recorder Concertos
David Woodcock | London Vivaldi Orchestra | Monica Huggett | Richard Harvey | Roy Goodman
The listing of the programme and personnel may well evoke a feeling of deja vu; most of the content of...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/2000
Szymanowski piano works
A well chosen and sensibly ordered recital, played with sensitivity and imagination by the young Polish pianist Anna Maria Stanczyk....
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1986
Lawes For ye Violls
Fretwork continue their stately progress through the English consort repertory with this polished recital of music by William Lawes. As...
Reviewed in issue 8/1991
Brahms String Quintets 1 & 2
Gérard Causse | Hagen Qt | Iris Vermillion | Paul Gulda | Veronika Hagen
The affirmative Allegro that launches Brahms’s Second String Quintet on its course is among the most exhilarating episodes in romantic...
Reviewed in issue 5/1997
Buxtehude Membra Jesu nostri BuxWV75; Nimm von uns BuxWV78
Cantus Cölln | Jos Van Veldhoven | Konrad Junghänel | Netherlands Bach Society
Each of the seven cantatas in Membra Jesu nostri (1680) is an affecting contemplation of the crucified Christ’s body, starting...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2006
(La) Pellegrina
Huelgas Ensemble | Paul van Nevel
This recording comes ten years after the Taverner Consort’s memorable reconstruction of the intermedi performed at the wedding of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/1999
Piano music of the Second Viennese School
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Yuji Takahashi
Takahashi treats this repertoire as though it were in a cultural vacuum, and the mothballed quality of Denon's recording reinforces...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Beethoven Piano Trios
After their welcome Pickwick coupling of the two Op. 70 Trios (11/92), the Solomon Trio have now moved on to...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1994
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
André Previn | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Previn made a famous LP recording with the LSO of this symphony in the early seventies for HMV which one...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1985
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