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Mendelssohn & Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos

This outstanding CBS issue was one of my Critic's Choices last December, and it makes an excellent CD with the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Yuji Takahashi plays John Cage

This CD is a reissue, in facsimile packaging, of Fylkingen’s début releases, two LPs taped in Stockholm in 1965. Written...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 2/2003

Bach As Teacher -Cöthen Period Keyboard Wks

While lessons can be learnt from just about everything Bach composed, many of his pieces were actually written with pedagogic...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/2000

Mozart; Strauss Oboe Concertos

The two most cherishable of oboe concertos make a delightful, if hardly generous, coupling, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1987

Thomas Hengelbrock conducts Bach, Lotti and Zelenka

This trilogy is based loosely on the Dresden connections between the Venetian Antonio Lotti, Bohemian Jan Dismas Zelenka and Thuringian...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2010

Dvorák Orchestral Works

The opening of the Fifth symphony, at one time known as the Pastoral, is one of Dvorak's most radiant inspirations,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1987

Mendelssohn Paulus

The revival of interest in Mendelssohn’s two oratorios symbolized by their recordings shows no sign of coming to an end....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1996

Reubke Piano & Organ Sonatas

I first heard Reubke's Piano Sonata at a concert given in 1982 by Jean Guillou. My impression then was of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1989

Bennett Orchestral Works

Although he assisted in the scoring of more than 300 Broadway shows with such legends as Gershwin, Kern, Porter and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2000

Draghi La Vita nella moerte

No, not the Giovanni Battista Draghi who worked alongside Purcell in London, but Antonio, possibly his brother, who spent 20...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/1998

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