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Korngold piano sonatas

Korngold's chronology is all wrong. He was 11 years old when he wrote his First Piano Sonata, the Second dates...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1987

Weiss Lute Concerti

Sylvious Weiss may not be a household name, but as the most prominent lutenist of Bach’s time, his music has...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2004

Bach St John Passion

Bach never entirely settled on a single view of the St John and there are at least four known versions,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2000

Haydn Symphonies, Vol.13

Goodman and the Hanover Band give predictably urgent, inspiriting readings of these three Salomon symphonies, emphasizing the music's sharp contours,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1993

Madetoja (A) Sea of Stars

Finlandia, Chandos and Alba in the 1990s helped make Madetoja’s music familiar. One of the early successes was the splendid...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2006

Daniel Hope - East Meets West

Now and then Europeans become fascinated by Eastern music. Look no further than Mozart for evidence of the fad for...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2004

Marthinsen Monster Symphony; Panorama; (The) Confessional

A former Nørgård pupil, Niels Marthinsen (b1963) has established himself as one of the busiest of the younger generation of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2006

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 4 & 7 – Karajan

Karajan recorded the Fourth Symphony three times, once in the 1950s with the Philharmonia and twice with the Berlin Philharmonic....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994

Joubert Chamber and Instrumental Works

John Joubert’s 80th-birthday year is unlikely to bring a more handsome tribute than this two-CD survey from Somm embracing no...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2007

Rossini Tancredi

Tancredi is a seminal work in the Rossini canon, a work which mingles a new-found reach in the musical architecture...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1995

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