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Moeran Violin Concerto

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Lionel Hill (from whose private collection the present triptych was quarried) that...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1999

Baird Choral and Orchestral Works

Goethe's phrase ''Ich bin ruhig''—I am calm—sits with some irony in a work by Tadeusz Baird, whose music rarely escapes...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1993

Knappertsbusch conducts Bruckner's Third

Sheffield Lab is one of those smaller labels whose reason for existence belonged essentially to the analogue LP era, when...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

Beethoven shows a considerable advance in personal expressiveness in the three piano sonatas Op. 10. The sweeping dramatic gesture and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Art of Baroque Trumpet, Vol 1

Symphonies Nos. 1 and 8 (the first disc in this new Naxos cycle and reviewed on page 48) brought out...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1996

Handel Amor Oriental

“Händel alla turca” is the subtitle of this release, and that pretty much explains it. Werner Ehrhardt, formerly of Concerto...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2011

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

This is nothing short of superb. If I say that this reading deserves to stand beside classic versions by Patzak...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992

Szymanowski Choral Works

Szymanowski worked on his choral ballet Harnasie for the best part of a decade (1923-31), finishing it only a few...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1991

Bach Partitas, BWV825/30 (piano)

Like my colleague SP, I find Andras Schiff's Partitas a blend of extremely fine pianism and extremely dubious Bach. Stylistically...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1985

The Golden Age, Vol. 1

This disc’s curious subtitle (“Vol. 1 – Europe”) leaves me nonplussed. Has Euro-scepticism hit the British early music scene? Or...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1996

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