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Bruch, Mozart & Schumann: Chamber Works

This is a crisp, neat performance of Schumann's Marchenerzahlungen, but though it is pleasant, accomplished and intelligent in ample measure...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991

Just Piano Trios Op. 2/1-6

“Who was Justin August Just?” the booklet-note well asks of this shadowy eighteenth-century figure, whose name, incidentally, all other reference...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1996

Buxtehude Organ Works

This handsome anthology may have arrived a few months late for the tercentenary of Buxtehude’s death in 1707 but it...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 6/2008

Ceremony

‘Ceremony’ is a collaboration between the baroque violinist Maya Homburger and the double-bassist, free jazz improviser and composer Barry Guy....

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Sir Adrian Boult conducts English Music

It cannot have been an easy evening for Sir Adrian when he conducted at the Royal Festival Hall's opening concert...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Verdi Giovanna d'Arco

The most brassy of Verdi's scores, Giovanna d'Arco has a brashness which James Levine's conducting brings into a glaring light....

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Bach Viola da Gamba Sonatas, BWV1027-9

I enjoyed these performances of Bach's three viola da gamba sonatas when I first heard them two-and-a-half years ago. Of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1985

Corelli Concerti grossi, Op. 6 - excerpts

Last month JAS described The English Concert's Gramophone Award-winning two-CD set of Corelli's complete Op. 6 Concerti grossi (Archiv Produktion...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/1989

Beethoven Choral Symphony

Morris presents the Ninth Symphony in a traditional reading, warm and eloquent and persuasively played and sung. The first movement...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Monologue - 20th Century Viola Works

Lacking as they do the extensive Classical and Romantic solo repertoire enjoyed by violinists and cellists, viola players are often...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2011

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