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Corelli Sonatas, Op. 5

If Michel Corrette was a little over-enthusiastic in crediting Corelli with the invention of both sonata and concerto form as...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1990

Mozart Piano concertos 25 & 26 (fortepiano)

One of the themes that runs, with little variation, through the various commentaries on Mozart's piano concertos concerns the supposed...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1988

Ye Horizon; (The) Last Paradise; Pipa Concerto; Winter

Xiaogang Ye (b1955) is a member of The New Tide group of Chinese composers. He founded the first independent new...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2004

Janine Jansen

Those who heard this young Dutch violinist play The Lark Ascending at the Proms in July will appreciate that here...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2003

Liszt Piano Works, Vol 11

Valerie Tryon is an accomplished and sensitive guide in these wonderful song transcriptions, adept at projecting the melodic lines and...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/1998

Strauss Don Juan; Aus Italien; Don Quixote

Though the Staatskapelle Dresden is arguably the world’s pre-eminent Richard Strauss ensemble, it has only once recorded Aus Italien. That...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2010

Chopin Piano Works

Elegantly mixing the miniature and large-scale, the radiant and despondent, Thibaudet shows himself a genial, stylish and enviably fleet Chopin...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1999

Handel Oboe Concertos Nos 1-3 etc

Such highly embellished and individually shaped performances make a good case for these early Handel concertos. Whilst Anthony Camden –...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/1997

Nielsen Symphonies Nos 1 & 6

Osmo Vänskä launches his Nielsen symphony cycle for BIS with a freshly conceived‚ keenly pondered and invigorating account of the...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Debussy Piano Works

I often find performances of Debussy's piano music to be musically bland with an unbalanced emphasis on 'keyboard colour'. Nobody...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1989

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