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BAX Phantasy VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite for Viola
Can it really be nearly a quarter of a century since Rivka Golani’s world premiere recording of Bax’s delectable Phantasy...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2013
JS BACH; TELEMANN Concertos for Viola & Bassoon
Why would a viola player or a bassoonist not want to play Bach? And who with a heart would want...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2013
Satie and Friends
This musical jardin à la française is dedicated to the memory of Brigitte Engerer, whose death in June last year...
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Ingolf Wunder: 300
Is it just a coincidence that this semi-pops recital from Ingolf Wunder features many works both closely associated with and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013
TARTINI Sonatas for Solo Violin
After recording little-known early-19th-century violin music by Alard and Mercadante, Luigi De Filippi – a busy soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
SCHUMANN Carnaval, Op 9; Faschingsschwank aus Wien
As Maurizio Baglini launches into Carnaval, the first impression is of a muddy acoustic, in which the textures lose definition...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013
RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes
The last time Rachmaninov’s complete Preludes came my way was Steven Osborne’s widely praised account (Hyperion, 6/09), a set which...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas
Here are two Prokofiev recitals by two Russian pianists of different generations (Koroliov is now 64, Kozhukhin 27), the first...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2013
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 17
The opening ‘Promenade’ sets the tone for the whole of Alice Sara Ott’s visit to Mussorgsky’s gallery. It sounds as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013
MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 10-12
Think for instance of Walter Gieseking, and his performances of K331 and K332 (EMI Icons) that combine precisely articulated playing,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2013
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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