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Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

A year without a recording by the vital, ever-youthful Krystian Zimerman is a year lost – and his previous recording...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2004

Shore's Trumpet

Roger North, writing in about 1700, described the sound of the trumpet, ''that small, portable, comodious and martiall tube'', as...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1988

Moeran String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Fantasy Quartet; Piano Trio

Pure enjoyment from start to finish. Even more than the admirable Maggini Quartet on Naxos, the Vanbrugh Quartet makes both...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1999

Vivaldi Flute Concertos

The six concertos recorded are the complete set of Op. 10, a collection thrown together (cabbaged largely from earlier music...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Schumann, G Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt

The name of Georg Schumann will be unfamiliar to most readers. He spent 50 years as director of the Berlin...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2007

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 etc

Gulda clearly has lots of new things to say about Op. 111. By comparison with his recording once available on...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Elgar Vocal Works

This might be termed the Gerontius of the 'JBs'. It very much belongs to the Angel of Dame Janet Baker...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1989

Mozart Bassoon Concerto; Flute Concerto No 1; Flute & Harp Concerto

These are thoroughly competent performances in which the soloists in the flute and bassoon concertos are members of the Chamber...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies

Among the many famous pianists who studied with Theodor Leschetizky, Mark Hambourg stood out as a force of nature gifted...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2006

Giles Swayne Cry

Giles Swayne's Cry for 28 amplified and electronically modified voices was commissioned by the BBC, first broadcast in 1980 and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

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