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Dohnanyi Sextet, Op. 37; Penderecki Sextet

A really meaty coupling, this. Erno˝ Dohnányi’s C major Sextet, a product of the mid-1930s, covers an extremely wide range...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2012

Bach Sonatas for Two Instruments

This generous disc of sonatas with obbligato harpsichord and AN Other reacquaints us with two of the viola da...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/2004

Handel Parnasso in Festa

In his exemplary booklet-note David Vickers echoes Christopher Hogwood and Jonathan Keates, whose excellent books on Handel have recently been...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2008

Mozart: Piano Concertos, etc

In his day Gieseking had few peers as a Mozartian or as an interpreter of Debussy and Ravel. Of his...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1991

Dunstable: Motets

For some reason Dunstable has alwasy been a disaster area in the record catalogues. No English composer before or since...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1984

Milhaud Symphonies

I assume (without any evidence, admittedly) that murky manipulations of record-company marketing moguls must have been responsible for the fact...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1993

Janácek The Lord's Prayer

Anyone expecting anticipations of Janácek’s masterpiece of 1926, the Glagolitic Mass, in these earlier, less ambitious choral pieces will be...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2004

Percy Whitlock Organ Music

Organ enthusiasts are nothing if not inquisitive, and the opportunity of playing at home a recording made in a private...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Bax Symphony No 4; Nympholept

David Lloyd­Jones and the RSNO continue their stimulating championship of Bax with this extremely persuasive account of the Fourth Symphony....

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Stephen Kovacevich

Stephen Kovacevich is introduced to this series by Beethoven and Beethoven alone. This is not the mature and latterly magisterial...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1998

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