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Bacewicz Violin Concertos Vol 2
Joanna Kurkowicz | Lukasz Borowicz | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed between 1945 and 1954, these three concertos adopt the same formal scheme as the First Concerto on the previous...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2011
Baroque Recorder Works
George Malcolm | Michala Petri
The most musically substantial work in this recorder recital is a transcription from E minor to G minor of Bach's...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1987
Liszt Piano Works, Vol.30
This new two-disc Vol. 30 in Howard's mammoth Liszt cycle is the third of his operatic outings, once more ranging...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1995
Music for the Sistine Chapel
Andrew Parrott | Taverner Consort
During the second half of the fifteenth century the papal choir was established in what was to remain its final...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1987
Brahms Complete Symphonies
Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra
No great musician of the past has benefited more from the current flood of live recordings than Toscanini. Comparing these...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
The Sun King's Paradise
The Palladian Ensemble has not shown much interest in French music hitherto, perhaps because it is repertoire which can be...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2000
Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 130 and 133 'Grosse Fuge'
Over the years‚ The Lindsays’ approach to Op 130 has remained remarkably consistent. The overall character of each movement‚ and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2001
The Voice of Tino Pattiera
Reading the life of Pattiera as outlined in The Record Collector (July 1968), one thinks twice about the severe observations...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
Cage Litany for the Whale
This is a landmark for Cage, Paul Hillier’s group and everyone else. Hillier says he has been interested in Cage...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1998
Milhaud string quartets, Vol. 4
I have obviously had better luck than RL when he reviewed another volume of this series of all Milhaud's string...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1986
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