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Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2; Partita

Another true Boult classic. This 1952 account of the London remains amongst the finest ever committed to disc, possessing a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Alfred Brendel

Here are two towering if sharply contrasted performances recorded in Paris in 1967 and 1970 set side by side in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003

Sweelinck Keyboard Works

This generous disc of keyboard works falls squarely on the shoulders of the kaleidoscopic organ of the Pieterskerk in Leiden,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003

Brahms German Requiem (version with 2 pianos)

Brahms himself made the two-piano arrangement of the accompaniment for his German Requiem but I cannot think that he would...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2006

Bach. Violin Concertos

Violinists are becoming more proprietary towards work which we believe that Bach originally wrote for their instrument. A good thing....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

Ligeti: Instrumental Works

If it's Continuum you're after, hard luck. Ligeti, perhaps tempting fate, specifies that the piece should not last longer than...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

La Calinda - A Delius Festival

A Delius festival without Beecham? Strange thought, but no composer's wagon should be hitched to one conductor's star, and it...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Volodos plays Liszt

Arcadi Volodos makes such infrequent visits to the recording studio that rarity value manufactures an extra frisson of anticipation with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007

Massenet Manon

Here is another classic set happily refurbished by EMI. Indeed, together with the Werther recorded some 20 years earlier, it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990

Ricercari - (The) Art of the Century in Italy

Liuwe Tamminga continues his fascinating investigation of early Italian keyboard music with this anthology of ricercars from the sixteenth and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1999

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