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Haydn Violin Concerto No 1; Symphonies Nos 49 & 80

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra headline with the C major Violin Concerto but their disc is all the more exciting for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 1/2009

The Symphony in Europe

I am a little puzzled by the title of this record, released to mark European Music Year. I suppose it's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1985

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.37

Of these two new records in Leslie Howard’s magisterial survey, it is, perhaps surprisingly, the transcriptions of Vol. 37 that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1996

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 4

Skimming through new issues my eye was caught by a mouth-watering prospect: Gieseking’s live 1949 performances of those Beethoven sonatas...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010

Go from my window

An entire disc of Renaissance lute music, especially one that includes no fantasias, can easily be the aural equivalent of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 13/2003

Beethoven Edition, Vol.10 - String Trios

Beethoven’s Op. 9 String Trios are often put down as practice works – the Master limbering up for his first...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 13/1997

A. Forqueray & J-B-A. Forqueray Harpsichord Pieces

The Henri Hemsch harpsichord, dated 1754, heard on this recording is not to be missed. Restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier, the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Dutilleux Symphonies

This pair of relatively early works by Henri Dutilleux, completed in 1951 and 1959 respectively, show him poised to inherit...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1993

Nono Composizione per Orchestra No 1

Two little-known works from the first half of the 1950s provide important evidence of Luigi Nono’s early attempts to move...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2004

Strauss (Der) Rosenkavalier

The combination of Der Rosenkavalier, the pre-renovation Glyndebourne and Montserrat Caballé might seem as likely as Luciano Pavarotti singing Peter...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 5/2011

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