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Brahms Violin Concerto; Double Concerto

This generous coupling of Brahms’s two concertos for stringed instruments has become relatively common in the age of CD thanks...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Silvestrov Sacred Works

Anyone who has been smitten by the silvery nostalgia of works by Silvestrov such as his Fifth Symphony or the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 2/2010

Monteverdi Combattimento di Rancredi e Clorinda

Tasso’s major poetical work, Gerusalemme Liberata, has inspired many musicians over the centuries but few capture the immediacy of the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1999

Herbert Ernst Groh in Opera

Groh (1905-82) and Kullman (1903-83) were almost exact contemporaries, and were of that school of German tenors who sound...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2007

Copland Orchestral Works

Hugh Wolff's reputation precedes him. On this evidence, I can't say I am surprised. His Appalachian Spring, pristine in its...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1991

Mozart Sacred Choral Works

This disc of popular church works by Mozart (well, most of them by him) has little claim to serious attention....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993

The Essential Leontyne Price

This is one of the most sumptuously presented sets ever. Contained in a red cloth slip-case, the 11 CDs, each...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1996

Busoni Piano Concerto, Op. 39

This is a most impressive performance, to my ears making a more eloquent case for the Concerto than even John...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1989

Rufinatscha Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Johann Rufinatscha was born in the southern Tyrol in 1812 and died in the same year as Brahms, 1893, having...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2011

Parable - Modern Original Works for Brass Quintet

The quintet medium has never quite established itself as the solid-state default for composers wishing to write for brass but...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2006

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