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English Recorder Concertos

John Turner, together with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Gavin Sutherland, has already given us a highly attractive collection of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2003

Beecham in Chicago

Here is a rare quarry of film footage which can hardly fail to delight anyone who is interested in Beecham,...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

With this issue Mikhail Rudy and the St Petersburg Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons complete their well-recorded EMI cycle of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995

Wagner (Der) fliegende Höllander

Here we have Wagner’s original plan for his first masterpiece conceived for a premiere in Paris that never happened. It...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2005

Haydn Symphonies Nos 85 and 86

Hugh Wolff and the Minnesota-based Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra won high praise for their recent Copland disc (7/91). Here, in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1991

Schubert/Liszt Piano Works

As I suggested in July when reviewing a recording by Annie Fischer, Schubert and Liszt make complementary rather than strange...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1992

Mendelssohn String Quartets

The Coull Quartet's selection is an interesting one, comprising Mendelssohn's first essay in the string quartet genre (in E flat),...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1992

4 + four

Sometimes I think contemporary quartets, from Kronos down, have lost faith in their tradition and medium. Gimmicks, guests and transcriptions...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2005

Glass Music in Twelve Parts

I’d be interested to know how genuinely “live” this 2006 version of Philip Glass’s Music in Twelve Parts is, and...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2008

Bach Cantatas BWV27, 34 & 41

The confluence of artistic endeavour on this new Sony disc of Bach cantatas recalls triumphs of yesteryear. Gustav Leonhardt, now...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1997

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