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Bach A Musical Offering

In his review five years ago, RG commended the high quality of the playing but regretted that the trio sonata...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1986

Brahms/Bruckner Choral Works

It is difficult to conduct Brahms's German Requiem without drawing attention to its often sanctimonious nature. Bernard Shaw—who disliked Brahms...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1985

Works for Cello and Orchestra

It is 16 years since Tortelier recorded the Elgar concerto for EMI with Boult in a performance that had always...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Glazunov: Orchestral works

Aside from an elderly Pearl recording of No. 1 by the USSR SO under Ivanov (GEMM195, 12/81), the Gramophone Classical...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

The authors of the Penguin Guide declared the cycle from which these performances derive as being ''As sound, the finest...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1995

Lalo/Chausson Works for Violin & Orchestra

There’s no doubt that Vadim Repin is a powerful virtuoso. He accomplishes the most complex violinistic tasks in great style,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1999

Saxophone Concertos

Things that don't fit neatly into pigeonholes have always had a hard time, and so it has been with the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1992

Vivaldi: Chamber Concertos

Though regulated by no Grand Plan, the recording of Vivaldi's with-wind chamber works on Compact Disc progresses apace so let...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1990

Dramatic Games - Solo Cello Works

You probably have to be a cello addict to get much from this disc. Much of it consists of little...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2003

Miaskovsky Symphonies Nos 2 & 10

The elegiac autumnal conservatism that has made Miaskovsky’s Cello Concerto such a firm favourite (on disc at least) in recent...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2000

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