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Bach Oboe Concertos

None of these four concertos is original Bach; each is a conjecture of how it might have started life. The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2011

Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3

Let me get my disappointments out of the way first, and only two really matter. Both concern Kocsis's reaction to...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1985

(The) Hoxton Thirteen

With a booklet cover evoking something of Punk’s heyday‚ you might expect this disc to be an ‘in your...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2002

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

The time cannot be far off when recorded music will be programmed to fill the room with appropriate odours, maybe...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999

Tapestry of English Cathedral Music

If this is in any real sense a tapestry it must be because ancient and modern are interwoven. In most...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Beethoven Variations & Bagatelles

In DG’s eight-disc compilation of Beethoven’s miscellaneous piano works it was Pletnev, along with the young Italian Gianluca Cascioli, who...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Mozart Adagio and Fugue, K546. Schubert String Quartet, D887

Schubert's last string quartet, composed in the space of 11 days in June 1826 (two years before his death), is...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1987

Copland: Orchestral Works

Even more Copland. This time from a New York group which has already recorded the Britten, Elgar and Vaughan Williams...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1991

Sibelius Tone Poems

Anyone who has already encountered the Lahti/ Vänskä partnership in Sibelius will know to expect performances of great vitality and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2002

Fernandes, A.J Violin Concerto; Branco Symphony No 2

My introduction to violinist Alexandre da Costa and conductor Jesús Amigo came from their superb 2005 recording of Luís de...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2008

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