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Berwald Septet;Serenade;Piano Quartet

Berwald’s chamber music is now really rather well served on CD. The newcomer brings the tally of Septets now before...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1997

Respighi Fiamma

On the face of it, what could be more up Respighi's street than a sumptuously exotic setting (the gold-mosaic magnificence...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1985

Sibelius Kullervo

‘A blistering performance,’ was how The Guardian described this account of Kullervo, caught on the wing at the Barbican last...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2006

Polyphonic Vespers for Christmas and Easter

Please bear with me if I begin by being a little musicological. This is a recording of liturgical music for...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Brahms Piano Sonatas

All three of Brahms's piano sonatas are works of his young manhood, and along with heroic and leonine keyboard writing...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

British String Quartets

This curious mixture of a programme is a precise re-creation of the concert at which Tippett's Fifth String Quartet had...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1994

Bach after Bach - Reger Transcriptions

Reger arranged Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites as piano duets during the first decade of the present century. Ripieno...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1999

Hovland Concertos

Solo piccolo works are rare (even Hindemith dodged that challenge), but Hovland’s Piccolo Concerto (1986) commands attention, and not simply...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Boccherini Cello Concertos, etc

There have been a lot of recordings lately of Boccherini's cello concertos, no doubt provoked by last year's 250th anniversary,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1994

Grand Opera Gala

There’s not much to be said for this, I’m afraid. Granted that the programme is designed to appeal through favourite...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2004

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