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Organ works by Hindemith, Distler and Kropfreiter

Hindemith's organ sonatas must be among the most successful realizations of the Gebrauchsmusik ideal. Technically they are not beyond reach...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Schubert Three Violin Sonatas

These are really impressive performances. Angele Dubeau and Anton Kuerti are at one in maintaining the intimate tone of Schubert’s...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1997

Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

The conventional mingles with the unconventional. Christian Gansch represents the conventional. He is a well schooled conductor and helpful partner...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2007

Codex Faenza

The Codex Faenza is one of the few remaining sources for instrumental music at the turn of the fifteenth century....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1998

Beethoven Egmont

When my son asks me, as I fear one day he will, “Daddy, did they have proper conductors when you...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1996

Haydn: Cello Concertos

Mischa Maisky, unlike the other cellists who offer the two best-known Haydn cello concertos in coupling, provides a substantial bonus...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Mozart Chamber Works

This issue offers a wide variety of styles, which is not to its advantage. The account of the Clarinet Quintet...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1991

Delius Mass of Life (A)

This classic mono recording of Delius’s Mass of Life, made in the winter of 1952-53, has been seriously neglected in...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Poulenc Mélodies

Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson gave this same programme of Poulenc melodies last year in Paris on the thirtieth anniversary...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1994

20th-Century Violin and Piano Works

Like so many of his contemporaries Bartok underwent a period of artistic self-examination immediately after the First World War. The...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

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