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Saint-Georges Violin Concertos

A second Naxos volume of violin concertos by the dashing violinist, swordsman and sometime soldier Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2004

Mozart Symphonies Nos 29, 33, 35 'Haffner', 38 'Prague', 41 'Jupiter'

Claudio Abbado’s name has not been much associated with Mozart’s over the years – he himself says that he has...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2008

Elin Manahan Thomas - Eternal Light

My hackles rose before I had played even a note of this disc. We are presented with, in what passes...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2007

Elgar Cello Concerto; Enigma Variations

There are some musicians, I am told, who question the abilities of Julian Lloyd Webber as a cellist and Menuhin...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Bach Violin Sonatas

For this recording Viktoria Mullova uses a 1750 Guadagnini violin, gut-strung and with a Baroque bow though not, I suspect,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2007

Arthur Grumiaux Early Recordings

The wistful artistry of Arthur Grumiaux serves chamber music handsomely, although fine versions of the Mozart, Beethoven and Berg concertos...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Rossini Matilde di Shabran

This long, loud, intermittently violent, occasionally funny melodramma giocoso was written by Rossini for Rome’s Apollo Theatre during the carnival...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2000

Beethoven Eroica

‘June 1804’ says the legend at the film’s opening. Denis Matthews (in his Master Musicians volume, Dent: 1985) thought it...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 9/2005

Bach, JC Gloria in Excelsis

Johann Christian Bach, who converted to Catholicism during his years in Italy, composed a handful of motets but no complete...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2003

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works

As can be seen from the timing, this CD is remarkably generous and at 74 minutes one of the longest...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

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