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Dvorák Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 3

The Chung Trio recorded their performances in the Vienna Konzerthaus, which clearly has a very lively acoustic. The pianist in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Traditional Catalan Songs

Catalonia's rich store of folk-song is inevitably coloured by that province's long history of hardship and repression from France and...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1992

Mozart Requiem

These days the 18th century’s most famous torso – one of the most recorded pieces in the classical catalogue –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2005

Mozart: Chamber Works

Anyone who still nurtures suspicions that period-instrument performances are expressionless or 'objective' should lend an ear to this very appealing...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

Ian Bostridge - The English Songbook

The recital begins with Keats and ends with Shakespeare: that can’t be bad. But it also begins with Stanford and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1999

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

Bach added no indication of tempo to the scores of the WTK; the performer is left to his own devices...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/2001

C H Graun Cleopatra e Cesare

Within weeks of his accession to the Prussian throne in 1740 Frederick the Great had appointed Carl Heinrich Graun as...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1996

Beethoven String Quartets 11 & 15

The Vegh's classic accounts of Opp. 74, 127 ( V4405, 6/87) and 131 and 135 ((D V4408, 6/87) have already...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1988

Italian Trumpet Concertos

Modern solo trumpet-players performing Baroque concertos still appear to draw heavily on the same works (if in different arrangements) that...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2009

Historical Sibelius Recordings

There have in all been more than 70 recordings of the Sibelius Concerto. The Heifetz/Beecham account for the Sibelius Society...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1992

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