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Violin Recital - Kyoko Takezawa

Debut recital discs seldom engender such a positive impression as this offering from the young Japanese violinist, Kyoko Takezawa. In...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1993

Bach New Year's Day Cantatas

Collectors will recall that Ton Koopman’s complete Bach cantata series hit the buffers in 2000, with Warner withdrawing its support...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 0/0

Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 2

Two figures in particular haunt the second volume of Chandos’s survey of Rachmaninov’s songs – Feodor Chaliapin and Rachmaninov himself....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996

Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

The perhaps idle thought struck me that there is something faintly incongruous in a Joyful Company of Singers electing to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999

Verdi Requiem

Hot on the heels of the Dutton Laboratories' transfer of the 1939 Serafin version of the Verdi Requiem (reviewed by...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1995

Rachmaninov; Prokofiev Cello Sonatas

Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata presents notorious balance problems. Though the composer took care in the Andante to give the two instruments...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2008

Schwartz Godspell

After the dismissive treatment that the revival of Hair received from the critics last September, it would be nice to...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/1994

Martin Triptychon

I remember hearing (as a callow 17-year-old) the broadcast of Polyptyque’s premiere, given by Menuhin and the Zürich CO for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2008

Vaughan-Williams Suite for viola; McEwen Viola Concerto

As Lewis Foreman explains in his very informative notes, this disc is effectively a tribute to the work and vision...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2011

Schmidt String Quartet in A

Franz Schmidt is not generously represented in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue and is not listed at all in the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1985

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