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Glass La Belle et la Bête

This is one of Philip Glass’s most innovative and impressive works. It isn’t exactly an opera, nor is it film...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1996

Amir - violin recital

This highly talented, 14-year-old Kazakh player has chosen a slightly strange programme for his debut album; despite the generally Eastern...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2001

Bach Invention and Sinfonies

Reference to the Gramophone Database reveals that there are more recordings of the two- and three-part...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1997

Svendsen Symphonies 1 & 2

The promising young Norwegian conductor, Bjarte Engeset, directs both these captivating symphonies as to the manner born. Phrases are shapely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1998

Bach Complete Orchestral Suites

In between volumes of Masaaki Suzuki’s eloquent cantata marathon, Bach’s instrumental music is quietly forming a comprehensive series of its...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2005

Spohr Piano Trios 1 & 2

Louis Spohr—immortalized by Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, gleefully devising a punishment to fit the crime of the music-hall singer, who...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1989

Mozart Violin Sonatas

''Mozart's Sonata, K526 represents his final thoughts on the medium although it was not actually his last sonata for piano...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991

Rubinstein plays Chopin, Vol.1

The year 1937 witnessed the birth of numerous distinguished piano recordings from the HMV stable: Schnabel's Schubert A major, Landowska's...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Thunder & Lightning - (The) Strauss Album

To Christopher Warren-Green has fallen the distinction of directing today’s popular British Strauss concerts, conducting Strauss-fashion with violin in hand....

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Ecole de Notre-Dame de Paris

The announcement last year that the Orlando Consort had won the Gramophone Early music Award is timely recognition...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997

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