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Gerhard String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

The ongoing Auvidis Gerhard series has not yet reached the string quartets, so it is good to have this Metier...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/1999

Mozart Piano Concertos 16 & 17, arr fortepiano

With this record, the fifth in his series, Malcolm Bilson completes his account on a fortepiano, with a period-instrument orchestra,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1987

Zapateado! - Homage to Joaquin Rodrigo

Here, in these guitar works by, and in homage to, Joaquín Rodrigo, Tom Kerstens proves yet again to be a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 6/2005

Dvorák & Wagner: Orchestral Works

The vivacity, lilt and charm of Dvorak's Serenade for strings have earned the piece a firm place in the catalogue,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990

Mozart Orchestral Works

Hot on the heels of Sir Charles Mackerras's excellent Prague version of the Posthorn Serenade for Telarc comes this rival...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1986

Britten/Veale Concertos for Violin and Orchestra

John Veale (b1922) began to make an enviable name for himself in the 1950s‚ but as a relatively conservative‚ tonal...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Mozart The Complete Piano Trios

There have been surprisingly few recordings on period instruments of Mozart's chamber music, and especially of the chamber music with...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1993

Schubert & Schumann: Works for Violin & Orchestra

It was only last April that I was rejoicing at the arrival in the catalogue of Schumann's very rarely heard...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1991

Miliza Korjus (1912-1980) - I

How odd that Korjus appears in neither The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (Macmillan: 1992) nor the new Oxford Dictionary...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1993

Froberger Harpsichord Works

Froberger is a favourite composer for many harpsichordists, the creator of a music whose irresistible dark melancholy and intoxicating expressive...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2001

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