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Classical Trumpet Concertos

This generous re-release of classical trumpet pieces, original and arranged, is taken from a number of Nimbus recordings featuring John...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1995

Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas

Mischa Maisky‚ whose playing always shows intense involvement‚ makes a passionate advocate for the Mendelssohn sonatas. With young Venezuelan­born Sergio...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Strauss, R Die Aegyptische Helena, '(The) Egyptian Helen'

Generally acknowledged as the least inspired of the collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal, this work has struggled since its inception...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2003

English String Music

Damien Falkowski and the Britannia Chamber Orchestra make their recording debut in what has become very much a standard programme...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Live in Buenos Aires

This is the first recording marking MacGregor’s new contract with Warner, a live concert with the Britten Sinfonia played before...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 4/2010

Grieg Lyric Pieces Opp 65, 68 & 71

In welcoming last October the second volume of Daniel Propper’s projected complete Lyric Pieces, I drew attention to his complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2009

Polina Leschenko plays Brahms, Chopin & Liszt

There is enough virtuosity here from the latest young pianist championed by the redoubtable Martha Argerich to keep you on...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2004

Virtuoso Oboe

The Capriccio of Ponchielli has lots of decorative passagework, and invites and receives the most stylish bravura from the soloist....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1996

Organ of Buckingham Palace Ballroom

Having never been en-knighted, en-nobled nor even en-MBE'd, I have never set foot inside Buckingham Palace. And a weird superstition...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2008

Mélodies Françaises

It is the dream of many a recitalist to excel in French melodies. This is a difficult area for non-French...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

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