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Menotti Orchestral Works

The music of Gian-Carlo Menotti – lyrical, colourful and communicative – has been sadly neglected by record companies. His may...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2001

Fingerbreaker - Classics of Ragtime and Early Jazz Piano

Norwegian pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen’s resume as a specialist in ragtime and early jazz styles mirrors his considerable keyboard artistry...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/1999

Schumann Kreisleriana;Reubke Piano Sonata

Though The Gramophone Classical Catalogue lists no fewer than eight different versions of the precociously gifted young Reubke’s C minor...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1996

Vivaldi Oboe Concertos

Vivaldi wrote a number of concertos in which oboes had both 'solo' and 'ripieno' parts but, as well as these,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1993

Works for oboe

The LP of this attractive recital of eighteenth-century oboe sonatas has been available sometime. Now comes the CD whose recorded...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1986

David Piano Trios

Felicien David remains best known for Le desert, written in the wake of the disastrous Eastern expedition of the Saint-Simonians...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1994

Benny Goodman with Toscanini

It is now some 13 years since the Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma made his first complete recording of Bach's six...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1993

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

The RCA recording of the Tchaikovsky First Concerto is something of an old friend, having first appeared around the time...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

James Galway The French Recital

Galway’s silvery timbre is well suited to Faure. He does not miss the sonata’s simplicity of line and he makes...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1996

Mozart (The) Violin Concertos; Sinfonia Concertante

In the lavish promotional blurb announcing her ‘Mozart Project’ (destined to include all the major works involving solo violin), Anne-Sophie...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2005

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