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Bliss Violin Concerto etc

When the previous recording of the Bliss Violin Concerto, now available on CD from Beulah, also has the same soloist...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1997

Reicha/Beethoven Compositions for Wind

Beethoven's unfinished Quintet for the improbable combination of oboe, three horns and bassoon is not quite a stranger to the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1993

Schumann Piano Works

For his second Decca album Nelson Freire turns from Chopin to Schumann, a surprising choice for a pianist more celebrated...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2004

Schumann Symphonies

Two totally contrasting approaches to Schumann: brisk, bold (and occasionally businesslike) readings from Masur that stress the Beethoven lineage; more...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1991

Bach Sacred Songs and the Little Organ Mass

Georg Christian Schemelli published his Musicalisches Gesangbuch in Leipzig in 1736. It was a collection of 954 hymns and arias,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

Sargent conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah

This remains the best version of Elijah ever recorded in English, and among the most desirable ever made as a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1996

Brahms: Complete Motets

Trinity has produced another impressive recital: the complete series of Brahms's motets. Singing of such quality and sensitivity brings life...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/1990

Hoddinott Poetry of Earth

The poor documentation is astonishing from a specialist label promoting a Welsh composer and Welsh artists. Biographical material is not...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2006

Bach Complete Orchestral Suites

Scholars are now sure that Bach did not plan his four orchestral suites as a set – unlike the six...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 6/2004

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Suites

There are plenty of selections from Rimsky-Korsakov’s more popular operas to be heard on record but the only music here...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2010

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