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Brouwer Guitar Concerto No 5; From Yesterday to Penny Lane

The Concerto No 5‚ Helsinki‚ was commissioned for the Helsinki Festival but contains no musical reference to that city. As...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail

This recording of Die Entfuhrung was made in 1966, issued on the continent the next year but in England only...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Great European Organs, No.20

Only Graham Barber could turn so unprepossessing a programme into something attractive to listen to, while producing such persuasive and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1991

Bach; Mendelssohn; Panufnik Violin Concertos

In case you were wondering – I was – what could possibly tie these four seemingly disparate works together, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 8/2004

Dvorák Concertos

In 1950 Rostropovich won a prize at the Prague Spring Festival competition with his performance of the Dvorak Cello Concerto....

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Vivaldi Concertos

All six of the concertos in this recital are originally works for two solo violins and strings. None of them...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1991

Vierne Complete Choral and Liturgical Organ Works

Intended to be performed by choir and two organs, Vierne’s Messe solennelle is a spectacular setting of the Mass; that...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2008

Rosa Ponselle - Opera & Song Recital

RCA's return to the historical field is as welcome as it is timely, timely, that is, in showing a renewed...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Brahms Piano Works

The slender accompanying booklet includes a photo of Mikhail Rudy (and a very personable young man he looks too) but...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1987

Moeran & Finzi Orchestral Works

A very pleasant disc of orchestral works by Moeran and Finzi, sensitively played by the Northern Sinfonia, and recorded straightforwardly,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

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