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Organists of the Sun King

You won't get much nearer the heart of early French organ music than this. Though some of the pieces and,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

By happy coincidence, these two new versions of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto appear with the same couplings. But where the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2007

French Opera Arias

''O merveille!'' as Faust exclaims at the vision of Marguerite. The beauty overwhelms him but, if you remember, it's an...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Arnold String Quartets

It is strange when Arnold has been such a prolific and imaginative symphonist, and when he has also written many...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1992

Beethoven Symphony No.9

With any good Ninth the prospect of an imminent onslaught should posit itself right from the opening bars, and Järvi’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2010

Tchaikovsky Chamber Works

Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence may not be completely idiomatic chamber music, but a good deal of it works well in...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991

Wagner en français

Hypothetically Murdered was a 1931 Music Hall show for which Shostakovich provided some of his most uproariously tasteless music—all appropriate,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Mozart Don Giovanni (film adaptation)

Part of Joseph Losey's genius as a film director was to make his settings - the buildings, the outdoors, the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2008

Mendelssohn String Quartets Vol. 2

Mendelssohn’s quartets exhibit a remarkable blend of fantasy, emotion and intellectual rigour, allied to an insider’s expertise in writing for...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2009

American 18th Century Piano Works

This is a fascinating and revealing collection—a reminder of how seriously the Americans are taking their own music of the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1994

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