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Bax Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 2

Puzzling. I am usually responsive to Bax but his violin sonatas are beyond me. Most of his hallmarks are there:...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Fiddle Sticks

Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra has a deceptively simple surface that reveals its complexities only after repeated...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2008

Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 3-5

Original instrument players have led the way in demonstrating how 18th-century phrasing was meant to work, with lifted upbeats, slurs...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2004

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 7, 12 and 23

Leon Fleisher has chosen Mozart for his first two-handed concerto disc in four decades. It is difficult to believe that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 8/2009

van der Aa Imprint; Mask; Spaces of Blank

Own labels from orchestras and venues have become a familiar part of the music scene but not so much those...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2011

Mozart Idomeneo

Reputedly Mozart’s own favourite among his operas, Idomeneo is a work of unique extravagance and daring that constantly challenges 18th-century...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2009

Verdi Il Trovatore

As I suspected, the sound of the Trovatore is much improved on CD. There is still some reverberation but as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1984

Schoenberg in Hollywood

It is more than a little ironic that, once Schoenberg was settled in America, he felt obliged to spend some...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1997

Strauss (Die) Frau ohne Schatten

Commemorating the 50th anniversary last year of the reopening of the Vienna State Opera, Orfeo’s release (the first official complete...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2006

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Bruk & Taimanov

Lyubov Bruk and Mark Taimanov were a husband-and-wife team who trained together under the Leningrad pedagogue Samari Savshinsky and were...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

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