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Dvorák & Tchaikovsky Works for Cello & Orchestra

It would be hard to find a more extreme contrast of interpretation in the Dvorak Cello Concerto than that between...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1990

Berkeley, M For You

The central character in Michael Berkeley’s For You, first performed in 2008, is a composer and conductor called Charles Frieth,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2010

Rore Missa Praeter rerum seriem

The Huelgas Ensemble have recorded a masterly recital of works by Cipriano de Rore, subtitled ‘Music, Mirror of the text’....

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/2003

Tartini Violin Concertos, Vol.2

A few months ago I reviewed the first volume of Gordan Nikolitch’s recording of concertos by Tartini (2/97). Now comes...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1997

Janácek Diary of One who Disappeared

Though there are half a dozen versions of the Diary in the catalogue, the only one by a Czech tenor...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1999

Paisiello (La) Serva Padrona

While Pergolesi’s vivacious intermezzo of 1733 – a crucial staging post in the development of opera buffa – has a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2007

Henselt Piano Etudes

Daniel Graham is, I think, the only previous pianist to have recorded both sets of these important and scandalously overlooked...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2005

Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri

What remains astonishing after all these years is the sense of occasion and the levels of musical tension that Walter...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1991

Vivaldi Cello Concertos, Vol 2

Evidently one of his favourite instruments, the cello inspired Vivaldi to write 28 concertos, most of them of enchanting high...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2009

Sibelius Violin Concerto (2 versions)

It is difficult to conceive of a masterpiece in any other form than it is. The impression the listener receives...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1991

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