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Mozart: Violin Concertos

''What had happened in the three months that separate the second from the third...? We do not know. Suddenly there...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

Purcell Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary

It was not so long ago that Winchester Cathedral Choir recorded the Funeral Music under Martin Neary in a fine...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1994

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake

Mikhail Pletnev’s multifarious career has not included a post as a theatre conductor but his devotion to Tchaikovsky is manifest...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2010

Bach, JC Concerti

C Bach is often thought of as a composer of polite music of no great depth or energy, but, as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2008

Placido Domingo - Italia, ti amo

‘Italia, ti amo’. But, as Domingo explains in interview, his native Spain comes first. All the same, he has apparently...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2006

Britten (The) Turn of the Screw

In his Gramophone ‘Collection’ article on the Britten operas (6/03), Richard Fairman looked forward eagerly to the return of this...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2003

Rautavaara Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3

It is a shame Naxos has not chosen to issue all three of Rautavaara’s piano concertos on a single, very...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2003

Bax Symphony No 7; Songs

Take your time over Bax's Seventh; it can seem two quite different works on two different hearings. Its occasionally noisy...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1988

18th Century Polish Symphonies

As a country with a limited base of musical patronage in the eighteenth century, and one that suffered a good...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

McCabe; Rawsthorne – Star Preludes

Alan Rawsthorne’s Theme and Variations for two violins not only ranks as one of his masterpieces‚ but can also be...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

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