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Bartók Violin Duos

Andras Kiss and Ferenc Balogh are the first and second violinists of the New Budapest String Quartet, who are currently...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 4/1992

Croft Select Anthems

The programme here very happily supplements the other recital of Croft's church music presently available (Hyperion, 4/93) which includes the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

Bach Hochzeitskantaten

Only recently I reviewed in these pages another recording of the same two wedding cantatas by Bach, performed by Emma...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/2000

Mozart Piano Concertos

Forty years ago that pioneering book The Record Guide (Collins: 1951) praised Sir Georg Solti as a pianist, playing Brahms's...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990

Haydn Scherzandi - Early Symphonies Nos 33-38

The Six Scherzandos which Haydn wrote in 1761 to impress his new patron, Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy, exhibit all the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Cherubini (Les) Deux journées

Les deux journées (1800) was greatly admired in its day‚ not least by Beethoven‚ who is known to have kept...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bach St Matthew Passion

1829 represents, for many, a symbolic rebirth of Bach as a composer whose music was to shape Western musical destiny...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2003

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music)

Trevor Harvey generally thought highly of Marriner's Philips CD (although in his original review he suggested the Overture was ''too...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1986

Victoria Choral Works

There have been some fine recordings of Victoria's music in recent years, but none finer than this one at its...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 3/2000

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol 1

Generally speaking I am impatient with the view that comparative evaluation of fine performances (whether on recordings or in competitions)...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

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