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Bernard Stevens Chamber Works

Things seem to be looking up for the British string quartet. Not only are the Britten and Tippett quartets firmly...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991

Britten the Performer - Debussy/Haydn/Mendelssohn/Mozart

This may seem a strange mixture, but Britten as conductor brings to each item a striking freshness. How unusual it...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1999

Sit Fast, Volume 1

Musical associations can be maddeningly insistent. Years passed before I could divorce organ music from religious services, brass bands from...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Berkeley, L (A) Dinner Engagement

Fifty years ago in June A Dinner Engagement was premièred at the Aldeburgh Festival. It was written for Britten’s English...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2004

Leopold Godowsky Piano Transcriptions

Some years ago a critic remarked that the difficulties of Godowsky's 53 Studies on Chopin's 27 Studies—his most widely discussed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1992

Shostakovich Symphonies 4 & 8

There is a sense in which this pair of symphonies from Rostropovich’s complete cycle falls between stools. Neither is as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2001

Vinci Li Zite Ngalera

Calabrian-born Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730) was a younger contemporary of Vivaldi, whose influence on opera composers of his own generation, among...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1999

Hindemith Violin Concerto; Kammermusik No 4; Tuttifäntchen

Hindemith’s Violin Concerto of 1939 is a splendid piece, yet unaccountably has never enjoyed the same success as, say, Bartok’s...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Burgan La Puerta de la Luz. Kaspar Messe. Hersant L'Infinito

Worth investigating if you have an adventurous spirit and an interest in contemporary vocal music. Patrick Burgan's La Puerta de...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000

Bartók Orchestral Works

I’m all for this super-budget Oehms ‘Documents of the Munich Years’ series; it shows James Levine on the wing –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2005

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