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Brahms/Mendelssohn/Schumann Chamber Works

Winner of a gold medal at Moscow's 1978 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American cellist, Nathaniel Rosen, now teaches at the Manhattan...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1995

Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 9 'Kreutzer' & 10

Listening to Edward Dusinberre’s playing on this disc, we can hear the same expertise and thoughtfulness as a Beethoven player...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2010

Vaughan Williams Job; Tallis Fantasia

These are good performances, as you would expect, and they gain added interest from the fact that they represent, in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1986

Stokowski's Symphonic Bach

Generations of new music-lovers must have experienced a thrill of discovery near the opening of the Disney film, Fantasia, when...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1994

Sharon Bezaly - Barocking Together

BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist Sharon Bezaly has several fascinating discs under her belt, particularly contemporary works written for...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2008

Lutyens Vocal and Chamber Works

A most welcome issue. At a stroke it more than doubles the amount of Elisabeth Lutyens's music available on CD...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1993

Bax Tone Poems, Vol 2

Vernon Handley's revelatory Bax odyssey for Chandos comes up trumps once again with this generous feast spanning a quarter of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2008

Dvorák Piano Quintets, Op 5 and Op 81

These are eloquent, highly characterful performances, captured live at a concert (we are not vouchsafed where) on New Year’s Eve...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Avison Concertos, Opp 3 and 4

Opinions differ as to whether the Newcastle composer Charles Avison really was (as the booklet-notes for this disc quote from...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2006

Lamento d'Arianna

It's good to see that this thematically-linked collection of pieces, one of The Consort of Musicke's most audacious projects to...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

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