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Solo - Yo-Yo Ma

This delightful release finds Stephen Hough revisiting Virgin territory. A bad pun, yes, but not an oxymoron! Hough recorded two...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/1999

Reger Violin Sonata; (3) Viola Suites

The sheer variety of Reger’s music could hardly be better suggested than by this pair of discs. Reger the wild...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Giordano Andrea Chénier

Good studio recordings of Andrea Chénier are in plentiful supply, Corelli's own of 1963 (see above) among them. But the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2007

Ginastera Estancia; Panambí

It was a characteristically bold step by the 21-year-old Ginastera to make his Op 1 an ambitiously scored orchestral ballet...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2007

Mendelssohn String Symphonies, Volume 3

With this third volume (the first two were reviewed in 12/96), Nicholas Ward and the Northern Chamber Orchestra complete their...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997

Ford A Icarus

Andrew Ford‚ born in Britain 45 years ago but resident in Australia for the last 20‚ is a composer who...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2002

Mertz Bardenklänge, Op 13

Johan Kaspar Mertz was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1806. It is not known who taught him to play‚...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bach: Keyboard Works

Everyone who has sat at a piano stool at a tender age will find old friends amongst the pieces comprising...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986

Mozart Complete Fortepiano Concertos

Recorded in 2004‑06, this Mozart piano concerto cycle first appeared on the small Pro Musica Camerata label. In the main,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2011

English Choral Music

The Three Choirs are very much at the heart of the English choral tradition, and here are two of them...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

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