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Bach Cantatas, Vol 25

Bach’s seamless and undulating setting of Christ’s valediction to his disciples in BWV86, Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, heralds Vol...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/2008

Schubert Impromptus 5-8

Way back in 1964, at the outset of his career, the Swiss pianist and harpsichordist, Jorg Ewald Dahler, won first...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1987

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (Highlights)

This is a tricky one to review. Gergiev’s reading of arguably the greatest classical ballet ever written has been tailored...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2008

Chopin Piano Sonata No 3. Ballades

Ousset's CD is full, forward and bright in tone, in the B minor Sonata more akin in level and quality...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1987

Vivaldi Pellegrina's Delight

Two items here are only recently verified as being by Vivaldi. The Sonata RV779 dates from his time at the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/2004

Halvorsen Orchestral Works, Vol 2

According to annotator Øyvin Dybsand, Halvorsen regarded his Suite ancienne (1911), subtitled “to the memory of Ludvig Holberg”, as one...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2010

Ramón Vargas – Arie Antiche

‘Arie Antiche’, with the elegantly bel canto lines favoured (supposedly) by composers and singers of two centuries and more ago,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2003

Ruders Piano Sonatas

In recent years Danish composer Poul Ruders (b1949) has become one of the most eloquent mainstream avant­garde composers on the...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Mengelberg Edition, Vol.2

When Grieg visited Amsterdam in 1897 he insisted that Willem Mengelberg, the brilliant young Principal Conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1993

Mozart Piano Trios

These very musical young players seem to think and breathe as one without forfeiting individuality of expression; this comes out...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1999

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