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Guitar Recital

This was a curiously compiled programme even in 1975: then, as now, there were several available versions of the integral...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1988

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio; The Seasons

An account from emigre Russians of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio as moving as any and generally as finely played. Not that...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1999

Bortkiewicz Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Along with a host of fellow composer-pianists, Sergei Bortkiewicz left Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule, ending up,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2002

Ridout Cello Concertos

Congratulations to Black Box for rescuing these cello works by Alan Ridout (1934-96), a fine but neglected English composer who...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2003

Basset Clarinet Concerto & Quintet

The selling points here are that for the first time both Mozart's major clarinet works have been accommodated on one...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Verdi Otello

As I suggested when this performance appeared on VHS, this film of Otello is not to be overlooked, in spite...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2003

The Hollywood String Quartet

Although the Schubert was reissued on LP in ''The Legendary Hollywood Quartet'' HMV set (9/81—nla), the Schoenberg has not appeared...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1994

Purcell: Vocal Works

Now three of our leading Purcellian conductors have produced fine recent versions of Come ye sons of art at three...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1990

Handel & Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas

This attractive recording is strongly Oxford orientated. It is the joint enterprise of the University, the Ashmolean Museum and Isis...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1993

Tippett Orchestral Works

I reacted enthusiastically to this release on its initial appearance and find no reason to amend my views five years...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

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