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Brahms Violin Concerto; Schumann Symphony No 4

These are live performances, recorded in Vienna in 2007. The Brahms has a real sense of occasion, with Arabella Steinbacher...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2011

Fitkin Chamber Works

When reviewing Graham Fitkin's disc of music for six pianos (Argo, 1/93) JM remarked that ''Fitkin has been seduced by...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1993

Keyboard Classics

This is a disc featuring the 1720 fortepiano by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'Period...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/2000

Mexican Baroque

This is a very exciting disc indeed. We are hardly well-supplied with recordings of baroque music from Spain and Portugal,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Leonard Warren

Up to the present, Nimbus’s Prima Voce series has restricted itself to the transcription of 78rpm vocal recordings made between...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2007

Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 2

One of the greatest moments in the classical repertoire occurs 31 bars into the slow movement of Beethoven’s late A...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2006

Works by Antal Dorati

With the mice born of the mountainous labours of some other conductor-composers in mind, one can pay Dorati the compliment...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Bach Feast of the Purification of Mary

The latest recording in Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage celebrates works written for the Feast of the Purification which falls on...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2000

Lamenta

Turn down the lights and get out your joss-sticks for this one: a selection of sixteenth-century Tenebrae music for Holy...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1998

Connesson Cosmic Trilogy

There’s a new generation of French composers we know little about on this side of the channel, names like Bacri,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2010

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