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Trumpet Concertos

This collection is entitled ''Favourite Trumpet Concertos'', which is a little misleading, for although the Haydn and Hummel works are...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1990

Hummel Viola & Cello Sonatas

Between any composer's Op. 5 and his Op. 104 there is likely to be, and indeed should be, a considerable...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1989

Mendelssohn Symphonies

Here at last is a modern digital version of this favourite coupling that I can recommend almost without reservation. There...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1993

Wagner, S (Die) Heilege Linde, Op 15

The plot of Die heilige Linde defies summary, or even, it appears, synopsis. Though the leading Siegfried Wagner scholar Peter...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2004

Handel Solo Cantatas

The more one hears music from the four years Handel spent in Italy in his early twenties – and there...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2008

Reich Sextet; Piano Phase; 8 Lines

Time was when Steve Reich’s music was the exclusive domain of his own ensemble: then he was signed to Boosey...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 9/2008

Works for String Orchestra by Lucerne Composers

The spacious introduction to the symphony at once proclaims Otaka’s considerable Elgarian instincts: not only is the playing exceptionally refined...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1996

English Recorder Music

Carl Dolmetsch (1911-97) not only pioneered the return of the recorder to the London concert scene, but did his utmost...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Beethoven Symphony No. 7

A letter in the May edition expresses amazement at Gramophone’s ‘hysterical adulation’ of Beecham recordings, and while it...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Strings! The Definitive Collection

In what terms might this collection be described as 'definitive'? I have no idea, but, sales promotion being what it...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1994

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