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JS BACH Partitas No 2 & 6. Toccata BWV911

The virtues of David Fray’s 2007 D major Partita and D minor French Suite recording (7/07) are present in his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2013

JS BACH The English Suites

After robust, earthy Purcell and delicately characterful Louis Couperin, Richard Egarr’s Bach English Suites are carefully controlled, polished, thoughtful and...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2013

JS BACH St John Passion BWV2458

Bach’s St John Passion gains more from the small-ensemble approach, I think, than its big sister, the St Matthew. Its...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2013

American Violin Concertos

For some years Menotti’s Violin Concerto, along with his other purely instrumental works, was neglected. The first recording, with Tossy...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 03/2013

WOLF-FERRARI Violin Concerto. Orchestral Music from Operas

Wolf-Ferrari’s Violin Concerto, a late work, was written for the young American virtuoso Guila Bustabo, who had enjoyed a meteoric...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013

VIVALDI Nuova Stagione

Like the sun on Monet’s haystacks or Rouen Cathedral, Vivaldi’s genius shone on his own conception of the Baroque concerto...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2. Rococo Variations

A decent account of Tchaikovsky’s so-called Little Russian Symphony – though not so little in this expansive and beefy Cologne...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2013

TAN DUN Concerto for Orchestra. Orchestral Theatre. Symphonic Poem on Three Notes

As the title implies, the Symphonic Poem is based on three notes. Not particularly interesting notes; just the first three...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2013

SZYMANOWSKI Symphonies Nos 2 & 4. Concert Overture

The whole Szymanowski landscape is here, from the Strauss-infatuated Concert Overture to the folk-inflected Bartókian pianism of the exotic Fourth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2013

SCHUMANN Symphonies 1-4. 'Schumann at Pier 2'

This is the sort of set that makes me grateful that classical recordings are still being made. As a refresher...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2013

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