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Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos Nos 1-3

Hyperion could hardly have launched its Romantic Violin Concerto series with a happier programme. Like Beethoven’s and Chopin’s First and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Mauer Salambo

Josef Matthias Hauer (1883-1959), even to those who have never heard a note of his music, is known as the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1999

Rawsthorne Orchestral Works

David Lloyd-Jones directs a swaggering, affectionate and ideally clear-headed account of Rawsthorne’s masterly Symphonic Studies (1939), one of the most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2001

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music)

It makes an attractive package having Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream music, dramatically presented (with Kenneth Branagh taking every role...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1997

Poulenc Gloria

From the very outset of the Gloria it’s clear that this is a performance of real distinction. The gloriously pompous...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2008

Bacri (Une) Prière

Nicolas Bacri (born in Paris in 1961), like many other composers of his generation, initially wrote within an atonal spectrum,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2004

Stravinsky; Debussy Works for Two Pianos

This combination of CD and DVD is surely the shape of things to come. Let me first say that (on...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

Tutta Bravura - Vadim Repim

Vadim Repin is among the most easygoing of violin virtuosos, a sweetly expressive player, restrained and stylish, though less steely-brilliant...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Zelenka Lamentations of Jeremiah

The Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka seems to be one of those figures who attracts more compliments than listeners. Even...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/1991

Mozart String Quartets 14, 18 & 19

These are most enjoyable performances, vividly recorded. Technically very polished, the Sine Nomine Quartet from Switzerland plays with great vitality,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2000

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