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Dvorák Slavonic Dances

Farrer's slow basic tempos for Dances Nos. 2-4 sent me scurrying for the score. It's unlikely that the speed at...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

Boulez conducts Zappa

Calling these pieces 'chamber works' is probably another of Frank Zappa's jokes: the biggest of them are inventively scored for...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1985

Vivaldi/Chedéville Oboe Sonatas

This disc of sonatas by Vivaldi is an attractive one in which the oboe provides the most important ingredient. The...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1993

Elgar Partsongs

These things endear themselves, for the most part silently, over the years. After all, you don't hear them often. Yet...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Korngold String Quartets

Korngold's First Quartet has all the rhapsodic lyricism of his operas (it was written not long after the most famous...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1989

Strauss, R Alpine Symphony

Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is not short of fine recordings in the current catalogue but (unless you insist on a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2010

Schumann Piano Concerto; Introduction and Allegro

Whereas Perahia’s 1989 release of Schumann’s Piano Concerto (an excitingly vivid live recording with Sir Colin Davis) had Grieg’s as...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 131

Apart from the Quartetto Italiano on Philips, which comes in a twin-pack with Op. 132, there is only one alternative...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1985

(The) Anatomy of Melancholy

The chief merit of this new recording is to place Dowland’s Lachrimae in a fresh context: rather than offering more...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/1999

Bach Violin Concertos

There’s much to be said for performing Bach’s concertos one to a part. What’s missed in contrast between solo and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2006

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