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Virtuoso Clarinet

Hot on the heels of Martin Fröst’s disc of clarinet showpieces (BIS, 11/10) comes this offering from Michael Collins. The...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2010

Mozart (The) Violin Concertos

Virtuoso “violinism” and energising direction notwithstanding, neither Giuliano Carmignola nor Claudio Abbado seems inspired by the B flat Concerto, K207....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2008

Regina Resnik - Dramatic Scenes & Arias

Regina Resnik had the grand manner. When she was on stage, no matter who her partners were, it was Resnik...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 13/2003

Beach; Thompson Choral Works

These two composers make good companions for each other despite the difference in age - Amy Beach, born in 1867,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Vivaldi Double Violin Concertos

The Venice Baroque Orchestra have a frill-less way of going about their Vivaldi programming: no mixed running orders, no...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2008

Subotnick (The) Electronic Works, Vol 2

For this DVD Tony Martin recreates his ‘liquid light’ shows of the late 1960s: in real-time improvisation with Subotnick’s music,...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 13/2004

Adriano Del Sal

It’s not often you get to hear Fernando Sor and Ennio Morricone on the same programme. But that’s just one...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 5/2011

Brahms/Schumann Works for Piano & Orchestra

An imaginative coupling, both works catching their respective composers in a mood of inspired defiance, Brahms with a four-movement structure...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Schubert Impromptus, D899 & D946

To get some idea of Perahia's approach to this music imagine a tree just opening from bud in the radiance...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1984

Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 6

Somehow it seems appropriate to have photos of a sun-soaked high diver on the cover of this release. Australia may...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2010

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