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Bach St Matthew Passion

The fashion for “single-voice” Bach Passions has happily shifted from prescriptive theorising on contemporary practice to rhetorical impact for the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2011

Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila

This is an auspicious beginning to what one hopes will be a series of recordings of French opera made with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993

The Virtuoso Liszt

Helmerson is a Swedish cellist of the middle generation, born in 1945, who was acclaimed in London some ten years...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986

Beethoven Cello sonatas

What is Beethoven’s Op 64 Cello Sonata, you may ask? Well, it’s an arrangement, first published in 1807, of the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2003

Britten: Choral Works

Britten wrote A Boy was Born, his first masterpiece, when he was 19. The only previous recording was made back...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Haydn Symphonies

Naxos move from Bratislava to Manchester for this latest disc in their Haydn symphony series, the first of five scheduled...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1994

Arnold Philharmonic Concerto; McCabe Chagall Windows

Just as second performances are crucial for new concert music, so second recordings are equally vital for the propagation of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2009

Roxburgh Antares

His music doesn’t fit in anywhere, which is how Edwin Roxburgh likes it. Now 72, Roxburgh is among a handful...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2009

Brahms Viola Works, Vol 2

Maxim Rysanov’s latest Brahms disc, “Viola II”, is a follow-up to “Viola” (1/09). That collection featured the sonatas and trios...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 6/2011

Confrey Piano Works, Vol 1

This diverting disc celebrates the art of Edward ‘Zez’ Confrey whose limited but infectious flair first lit the American music...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1999

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