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Elgar Symphony No 2

Nothing in recent years has given the true Elgarian more pleasure than the revival of interest in his music among...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Britten Piano Concerto. Enescu Légende. Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 1

Both of these concertos were captured live in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and present an exciting and intelligent young partnership, well...

Reviewed in issue 13/1999

Bach Organ Works, Vol. 5

Three great joys await prospective listeners to this pair of discs. First there is the sublime collection of chorale preludes,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1997

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

The relative merits of the three front-runners in this field—Davis (Philips), Muti (EMI) and Abbado DG)—were well rehearsed by JW...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1986

Liszt (A) Faust Symphony

If Gretchen's tender personification of The Eternal Feminine ultimately triumphs over the forces of evil, then I suppose one shouldn't...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Bach The Violin Sonatas

It is now exactly ten years ago that Sigiswald Kuijken and Gustav Leonhardt recorded Bach's six sonatas for violin and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1984

Bach (4) Orchestral Suites

Concerto Köln celebrates 25 years with highly accomplished readings of Bach’s staple “orchestral” suites. Directed by three of its members...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2011

Hume Passion and Division

If you enjoyed Susanne Heinrich’s solo Abel album (1/08), you’ll want this release. Hume’s music stands at the opposite end...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 5/2010

Enescu Violin Sonatas

It takes some believing that these were all written by the same person, even allowing for the fact that Enescu's...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1992

Ives Songs, Vol.2

I gave a warm welcome to Vol. 1 of this series of Ives songs (9/91) and included it in my...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1992

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