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Mozart Violin Concertos 1, 2 & 4

No talk here of historically informed performances. “We simply look at the notes Mozart wrote down, and start from there,”...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2011

The Eileen Joyce Album

Eileen Joyce was born to impoverished parents scratching not quite a living out of the Australian desert; the story used...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Millöcker Gasparone

To listen to these five CD reissues of classic Viennese operettas is to revisit what seems like a golden age,...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1995

Bach, Vol.14

For almost a quarter of a century Menuhin's recording of Bach's three most popular violin concertos has been a staple...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1985

Schumann Piano Works

Israel- and American-trained after leaving Lithuania, Wainberg emerges as firm fingered as minded in the Humoresque and Romances, albeit inclined...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1999

Finzi Dies Natalis; Walton String Sonata

Tenor Toby Spence is the featured artist in this recital but the biggest work, taking up the second half of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2008

Beethoven Chamber Works

Mozart was without doubt the greatest composer of music for wind instruments, either as soloists or as members of an...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 4/1993

Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony

We can argue till the combined harvesters come home about the emotional content of Shostakovich's symphonies; but there is no...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

D'India Madrigals and Canzonettes for solo voice

On the evidence of this disc there is no reason to dispute the Grove Dictionary claim that Sigismondo d’India was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2003

Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony

Comparing the first few vocal phrases in these two performances, I began to suspect that, for once, Fischer-Dieskau would not...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991

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