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JS BACH Secular Cantatas Vol 3
A third volume of secular cantatas finds the Bach Collegium Japan celebrating red-letter days of people who would surely have...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 09/2013
Bach Re-invented
Here is a disc whose eclectic references make its classification elusive. Classical, jazz, crossover, rock, big-band, world music? It has...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
75 Years of the Ysaÿe & Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition
Muso’s five-disc album of performances dating from 1952 to 2010 commemorates 75 years of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
VIVALDI: A Tale of Two Seasons
La Serenissima can be relied upon to devise clever and coherent concept albums. This one explores Vivaldi’s operas produced during...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 3. Sleeping Beauty Suite
Dmitri Kitaenko’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues to provoke decidedly mixed emotions within me. Admiration, certainly, for the expertly honed orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
SZYMANOWSKI Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
Karol Szymanowski didn’t like his First Symphony (190607), though as so often with great composers and their fledgling offspring, his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013
SCOTT Piano Concerto, Op 10. Cello Concerto, Op 19
This is an ecstatic outpouring of unknown music. Scott studied in Frankfurt along with Grainger and Quilter, then returned to...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 09/2013
RIISAGER Violin Works; Symphony No 2
Here we have not just a follow-up to Dacapo’s appetising first volume of Riisager orchestral works (1/12), but also a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2013
MOZART Symphonies Vol 2
It takes a fanatical Mozartian to claim these prepubescent symphonies as masterpieces. Yet each of them reveals the 12-year-old composer...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2013
MOZART Piano Concertos
It’s clear that Finghin Collins delights in Mozart and the four concertos here are the fruits of his time as...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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