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Bach, J.L. Motets

In the pantheon of Bachs, Johann Ludwig takes a modest position as a local Thuringian cousin of JSB’s, some of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2007

Brahms; Weber Clarinet Works

Reviewing the two comparisons selected above in March 1988, JOC found it difficult to make a straight preference between two...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1990

Haydn Concertos

The least familiar work here is the oboe concerto, which was published only in 1926 on the basis of a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1992

Wagner Tannhäuser

When this production was new in 1977 it was hailed by Andrew Porter as “a 20th-century landmark in the history...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 13/2006

Ibert Orchestral Works

Ibert’s jokey Divertissement, originally designed for the stage farce The Italian straw hat (O, for a re-run of Rene Clair’s...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996

Creston Orchestral Works

Paul Creston (1906-85) was an extravagant American romantic in some ways comparable to his contemporary Howard Hanson. Both composers wrote...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992

Mozart Piano Trios

Record companies have been falling over each other to bring out single discs or sets of piano trios during Mozart...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2006

Michelangeli : Piano recital

Michelangeli's wizardry makes for a version of Beethoven's last sonata that I still respond to with a lot of enjoyment,...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/1989

Mozart: Piano Works

''Germanic rather than Austrian, public oratory rather than confidences, noble prose rather than poetry'': such expressions, JOC suggested in her...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 7/1988

Dawn Upshaw Recital

While it is interesting to hear a singer’s first steps along the way to fame, they often have to be...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

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