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Ireland Complete Music for Violin and Piano

After many years of inexplicable neglect by the record companies, John Ireland’s glorious Second Violin Sonata of 1917 (the work...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1996

Globokar Chamber Works

These five works of Vinko Globokar's range in date from 1966 (Accord) to 1983 (Discours VI), and all exploit the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1993

Goetz Piano Concerto No 2; Wieniawski Piano Concerto

Goetz’s Second Concerto was first recorded in the early 1970s by Michael Ponti, one of many forgotten gems he unearthed...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011

Shostakovich Symphony No 10

As with Paavo Järvi’s recent Prokofiev coupling (3/08), it’s the makeweight that strikes sparks. Veljo Tormis is mostly familiar as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2009

Khachaturian & Kabalevsky Violin Concertos

The popular Khachaturian Concerto of 1940 has been recorded by its dedicatee David Oistrakh under the composer's own baton, and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1991

Zimmer Angels & Demons OST

After the success of the film version of Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons follows on...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2009

Vivaldi Sonate da Camera

Like most composers of his time, Vivaldi began his publishing career with sonatas. His sonatas, although just as strongly marked...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/2004

The Last Recital for Israel

This CD contains one of the most sensational accounts of the Appassionata that I have yet heard. It beggars belief...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1993

Strauss, R Don Juan; Metamorphosen; Lieder

These were Jan Latham-Koenig’s valedictory 2001 recordings with the Strasbourg Philharmonic and as pianist in partnership with Joan Rodgers in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2011

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

This, Andre Previn's second recording of the work, arrived just too late to be included in my Gramophone ''Collection'' survey...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

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