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Bach Cantatas, Vol 47

Late works from Trinity 1726 and a revered and substantial Advent cantata constitute this variable volume of readings from Masaaki...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2011

Webern Orchestral Music

Fifty­two minutes is all it takes to cover Webern’s orchestral music‚ at least if the early tone­poem Im Sommerwind and...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

Mark-André Hamelin’s second set of Haydn sonatas confirms the adulation that greeted his first. Yet, if anything, it is even...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2009

Lukas Foss: Orchestral Works

The so-called Renaissance Concerto (dating from 1986) could, I think, build itself quite a following among deprived; flautists in search...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1989

Takemitsu Orchestral Works

‘Dream’, ‘Slow’, ‘Twilight’: these are the kind of words that give the key to Takemitsu’s later style, and all the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1999

Vivaldi Concerti and Cantate de camera

Naïve’s monumental Vivaldi series continues its sensible policy of mixing chamber cantatas and concertos in this third volume, in which...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2005

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra

Pretre as a Strauss conductor is not an automatic association of ideas until one remembers that he made his Paris...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

Beethoven Late Quartets

Returning to these wonderful recordings for the umpteenth time confirms such perennial qualities as crystal-clear articulation, a keen sense of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Martinu Piano Works

Martinu hardly wrote the sort of music where every note is worth its weight in gold. Criticized for his failure...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1999

Bach: Organ works

A first-class record, very well balanced and presenting Silbermann's organ in a very youthful light. What a fine instrument it...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

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