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Bach Brandenburg Concertos

When Trevor Pinnock first recorded the Brandenburgs with the English Concert for DG Archiv in 1982, period performances of these...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2008

Litolff Concertos Symphoniques Nos. 3 and 5

Volume 26 in Hyperion’s engrossing if uneven ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series completes Peter Donohoe’s magisterial survey of Litolff’s five piano...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Invitation to the Seraglio

There was I, in a review of a CD called ‘East Meets West’ (Warner Classics, 8/04), citing Mozart’s flirtation with...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2004

Zwilich Rituals; Violin Concerto

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, now in her mid-sixties, is one of the most prominent American composers of her generation. In 1983...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2005

Bach Violin Works, Vol 1

Many Baroque violinists have accepted the challenge of unaccompanied Bach and there's a large range of different approaches to compare....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2007

Bach and the North German Tradition, Vol 1

Although Bach gets top billing (being alphabetically top of the class), the most pleasurable highlights are the three delightful pieces...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2011

Dupré Organ Works

Marcel Dupre, who succeeded his master, Charles-Marie Widor as organist of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, and, after years as Organ Professor,...

Reviewed by faprahamian in issue: 7/1989

Leo Blech conducts

Leo Blech (1871–1958) held important posts with the Berlin State Opera for most of a period between 1906 and 1937....

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Vivaldi Concertos, Op. 3

Vivaldi’s L’estro armonico was printed in Amsterdam in 1711 and was the composer’s first collection of published concertos. Later sets...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1998

Mozart Chamber Works

An odd coincidence that two discs of the same three unfamiliar Mozart works—or largely unfamiliar—should reach me together. The Quintet...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

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