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Bach Partitas Nos 1 and 2; English Suites Nos 2 and 3

A very pleasing enterprise, and for a number of reasons. Firstly, and most obviously, there’s the music, a well-chosen Bach...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

(The) Tend'rest Breast - Settings of women's poetry

Born in Lincoln in 1927, Geoffrey Kimpton studied composition with Alfred Nieman at the Guildhall School of Music and also...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2005

Bach Musical Offering

The new Offering from Harmonia Mundi faces formidable opposition from several versions that have come my way in recent years....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1988

Ibert/Jolivet/Nielsen Flute Concertos

No surprise to see eight recordings of Nielsen's genial Flute Concerto in The Classical Catalogue. But I would never have...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 and 6

Very much to my liking, this – the punchy, neatly packed sound; the way the timps thwack away at the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2006

Howells Sir Patrick Spens; Hymnus Paradisi

Sir Patrick Spens is an early work and evidently so little regarded that it has been lost to view from...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2007

Classics of the Americas, Vol. 4

I welcomed Philip Martin's CD of Gottschalk (Hyperion, 9/91) as an ideal introduction to one of the most colourful personalities...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992

Handel Aminta e Fillide

I was enchanted by Handel's pastoral cantata Aminta e Fillide when I heard it in this performance on LP last...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1985

Grigory Ginzburg - His Early Recordings Vol.2

For Bryan Crimp, who masterminds this invaluable “Russian Piano Tradition” series, Grigory Ginzburg (1904-61) was a “quiet pianist” who none...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010

Music from the Pushkin Epoch

This is a curious disc. It collects works for piano duet by a group of minor composers who emigrated to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

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