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Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions, save those of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
This interesting programme offers a revealing glimpse at how the Baroque concerto grosso form, or something very like it, was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
This is an unusual Bach coupling, but to give solo spotlights to both the founding members of Ausonia seems as...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016
As a general rule it’s a bad idea to make sweeping generalisations in print, even if all your internal instincts...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016
Here are four sonatas by four Brazilian composers whose careers span three generations. With one arguable exception, their work is...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
Eighteenth-century harpsichord music by British composers seldom gets much attention compared to German and French ones and Scarlatti, so although...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016
During the 1940s, the Spanish pianist of Basque ancestry José Iturbi made no fewer than nine Hollywood films, usually playing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016
The sonata for solo string instrument is a genre Weinberg made more or less his own in the Soviet Union,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016
From the first prelude in B major to the last one in no designated key, the 90 miniatures on this...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2016
Considering his formidable keyboard facility, it’s surprising that Nino Rota composed relatively few original piano works, although his celebrated film...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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