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Beethoven Violin Concerto

When I reviewed Lisa Batiashvili’s memorable Proms performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto some eight years ago (she was just 20...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2008

Sweelinck Organ Works

The Houghton Chapel of Wellesley College is nowhere near as resonantly spacious as the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, but its...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 2/1995

Baroque Choral Works

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen (18 this time) have chosen two of the most popular late Baroque choral works for...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1992

Byrd Masses

This new recording of the three Byrd Masses, the fifth release in The Byrd Edition from The Cardinall’s Musick, is...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: /2000

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

As Blandine Verlet said to me some years ago, “You don’t play Scarlatti, you play with him”; she was clearly...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 13/1998

Recital - Biatashvili

Anyone who was fortunate enough to have attended the 2000 Prom where 22-year-old, Georgian-born Elisabeth Batiashvili played Beethoven’s Violin Concerto...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Sibelius Violin Concerto; (The) Tempest - Incidental Music

With the Violin Concerto for once not coupled with another violin work, this makes a unique and imaginative Sibelius issue,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2000

Works for Cello and Piano

The amiable Schubert sonata is familiar to us in this cello and piano guise, rather than the very occasional airings...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Piano Variations

Carefully chosen, ‘themed’ recitals are always welcome. Yet it’s far from easy to get the packaging right. Michelle Makarski’s outstandingly...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Franck; Strauss, R; Widor Sonatas for Flute and Piano

Flautists have often adapted the Franck Violin Sonata but Emmanuel Pahud goes further in taking over Richard Strauss’s early Violin...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2004

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