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Villa-Lobos Cello Sonata 2; Piano Trio 2

These are both early works, written before Villa-Lobos's fateful meetings with Arthur Rubinstein and his consequent sojourn in Paris; but...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1990

Martinu Piano Concertos

Although the five piano concertos are not of comparable importance to the Martinu symphonies, they are not of negligible interest....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1995

Harvey Oeuvres pour violincelle

Last year I reviewed a CD of improvisations by the American cellist Frances­Marie Uitti and‚ using electroacoustic equipment‚ the composer...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Rautavaara Angel of Light; Annunciations

Having initially feared that Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Angel of Light might be yet another passenger on a rather tired celestial bandwagon...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko

Rimsky-Korsakov's operas are not so well represented in the catalogue that one can afford to give anything but a welcome...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1995

Schumann Songs, Vol 8

Christopher Maltman follows his superb Dichterliebe (5/01) with an equally authoritative and deeply felt reading of the Heine Liederkreis. This...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003

Poulenc (La) Voix humaine. (La) Dame de Monte-Carlo

I don’t know whether Poulenc ever read any Jung‚ but he was certainly in close touch with his anima. His...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano

From this most sentient of partnerships of Timothy Hugh and Yonty Solomon comes a release of vivid presence: the first...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1994

Bach Cantatas

The genesis of Bach's great Reformation cantata, Ein feste Burg goes back to 1715 when it was performed at Weimar...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1985

Dvorák Symphonies Nos 3 and 6

These are all modern digital recordings made in the Reduta Concert Hall in Bratislava in 1989. They are part of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1991

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