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Rorem Chamber Works

In Ned Rorem’s End of Summer (1985) for clarinet, violin and piano, dramatic juxtapositions seem to be the work’s organising...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 4/2003

Bach Cantatas Vol. 44

As we head into the home straight of a project which started nearly 15 years ago, Masaaki Suzuki offers three...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2009

Beethoven/Mozart Piano Concertos

For artists at the beginning of a career a recording these days is like a visiting card: if you leave...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 1/1996

French Violin Sonatas

This account of Debussy's Violin Sonata begins almost apologetically, considering the first movement is marked Allegro vivo. Yet Lorraine McAslan...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1991

Chopin Piano Works

''I certainly look forward to more Chopin from this sensitive artist'' was how I ended my review of Seta Tanyel's...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1994

Rossini Overtures

There hasn't been a lot to laugh about recently, but there are, I'm happy to say, one or two laughs...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1991

Berlioz/Schumann Works for Viola and Piano

The smallness of the viola repertory (astonishingly small compared with the violin's or even the cello's) must be frustrating to...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1991

Sumi Jo - La Promessa

Here is one of the most delightful singers of our time heard in a programme that extends her repertoire on...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Danielle de Niese - The Mozart Album

Danielle de Niese has made her name singing Monteverdi, Rameau and Handel so perhaps it’s unsurprising that the earliest works...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2009

De Frumerie Chamber Works

Gunnar de Frumerie (1908-87) was no more a one-work composer than was his contemporary and compatriot Dag Wirén, but his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2004

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