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BIBER Rosary Sonatas

There are now over a dozen recordings of Biber’s superb meditative cycle of 15 violin sonatas and a passacaglia linked...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013

Neapolitan Flute Concertos II

This sequel continues flautist Carlo Ipata’s probing exploration of the remotest corners of early-18th-century Neapolitan repertoire. None of the composers...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013

Music in the Air

Reiner Moritz is among the most experienced and distinguished of filmed music producers, the ideal figure, you would have thought,...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

Lost Generation

What with the publication of Michael Haas’s Forbidden Music (see page 90), there’s hope yet for an extra boost to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013

IBERT; NIELSEN Flute Concertos

Here is a splendid showcase for Thomas Jensen’s magnetic interpretations of these four contrasted items. Nielsen’s Flute Concerto may be...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2013

Les Ballets Russes, Vol 9

This is Vol 9 of Hänssler Classic’s survey of Ballets Russes scores and features three Diaghilev commissions. Most of us...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5; Dona Nobis Pacem

Preserved on two specially commissioned long-playing acetates in the possession of Arthur Ridgewell (the executive producer of this...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2008

ELGAR The Kingdom

Sir Mark Elder’s stirring account of the magnificent “Prelude” from The Kingdom (which shared a CD with Thomas Zehetmair’s Gramophone...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2010

Karajan – The Second Life

As Eric Schulz’s new documentary about Herbert von Karajan is drawing to a close, a bombshell. ‘I believe we have...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence

New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s carefree and endearingly garrulous Souvenir de Florence – whether in its original guise as a string...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013

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