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ENESCU Chamber Music

Few of Enescu’s smaller works are repertoire items outside his native Romania. It’s often forgotten that he was a celebrated...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012

DEBUSSY; FRANCK; POULENC Cello Sonatas

César Franck’s Violin Sonata drops from the soprano and alto register to the tenor and bass-baritone in this performance by...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2012

BEETHOVEN String Quintets Op 4 & Op 29

Scholar Marion M Scott described Op 29 as ‘a very beautiful work – beautiful both from its themes and the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2012

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto, Op 61 BERG Violin Concerto

The Beethoven and Berg violin concertos aren’t commonly paired on disc. However, in this case it seems like an inspired...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2012

PATTERSON Phoenix Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto HOWELLS Oboe Sonata

Emily Pailthorpe is a young prize-winning oboist, trained at the Juilliard School in New York, who plays with an exceptionally...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2012

KINSHASA Symphony

The opening sequence shows a man perching precariously at the top of a flimsy pole connecting a tangle of live...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Dances to a Black Pipe

There may be works by Brahms, Copland and Piazzolla here but almost every piece is a novelty in Martin Fröst’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2012

VIVALDI Bassoon concertos

There was a time when even my heart might have sunk at the idea of ‘Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Vol 2’,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2012

VIVALDI 12 Violin Concertos Op 8

As violinist and Avison Ensemble director Pavlo Beznosiuk writes in his booklet-note to the Avison’s fine new complete recording of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. 'Francesca da Rimini' Fantasy

It’s really hard to fault any of Nelsons’s choices here. Like Tchaikovsky, he is a classicist at heart: nothing is...

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