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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

You can anticipate something individual and special from the way that Janine Jansen insinuates herself into the first subject of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2009

Debussy; Ravel Vocal & Orchestral Works

Anne Sofie von Otter is really exploiting the French repertory nowadays. After her Mélisande and Carmen, and Chaminade and Offenbach...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2004

Rachmaninov Cello Works

Rachmaninov's lengthy, not to say protracted, Cello Sonata was written for his friend Anatoly Brandukov, an evidently gifted and delightful...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1986

Bentzon (The) Tempered Piano

This will test you: 13 double traversals of the keys of the tempered scale, 624 Preludes and Fugues in total....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1999

Holloway Concerto for Orchestra No. 3

A North African holiday was the initial stimulus for Robin Holloway’s Second Concerto for Orchestra. The first ideas for No....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 2/1998

Haydn Violin Concertos

Strings only in the orchestra (parts for horns in No 3 are, in Robbins Landon’s view, misguidedly omitted in the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2004

Rossini Stabat Mater

By some curious chance, Rossini's Stabat mater is something of a rarity on the gramophone. Extant recordings have yet to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1989

Sani Oltre il deserto spazio

Nicola Sani (b1961) rejects, according to the notes accompanying this recording, ‘the involution and regression going on everywhere today in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 7/2003

Prokofiev & Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Friendly folk the Scythians; given, it would seem, to blood drinking amongst other things. And Prokofiev's suite was expressly intended...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1991

Vivaldi Concertos & Vocal Works

This follow-up to La Serenissima’s anthology ‘Vivaldi in Arcadia’ (Avie, 2/04) is particularly interesting for the Concertos RV212 and RV554a,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2005

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