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Bruch/Goldmark Violin Concertos

The Taiwanese Nai-Yuan Hu is yet another of those extraordinarily talented oriental violinists who have come to the West to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1995

Robert Saxton Orchestral Works

This important issue gives record collectors a long-delayed opportunity to catch up with concertgoers and radio listeners in exploring the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1990

Mahler Symphony No 5

Still they come, despite what the late Michael Oliver might have referred to as ‘an insane overproduction’. Both these latest...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2005

Alfred Cortot plays Franck

This generously filled disc (79'21'' of matchless music-making) celebrates Cortot in all his glory; in his prime and at his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996

Halffter Sonatina etc

The main item here is the 40-minute one-act ballet Sonatina (1928). The plot concerns not the eponymous musical form but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2001

C.P.E.Bach flute quartets

These fascinating works date from 1788, the year in which Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died. Nearly a decade ago they...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1987

Brahms Orchestral Works

The first instalment of Rahbari's Brahms symphony cycle provided a good account of the Second Symphony, but a Second Serenade...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Suk Asrael

Imagined hammerblows of fate felled the hero of Mahler's Sixth. He finished the composition in 1904. That same year an...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1991

Brahms/Bruch Violin Concertos

Hideko Udagawa is a confident, energetic player who can unleash a beefy forte at the least provocation, and who evidently...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1991

Popular Orchestral Works

The record is not primarily one of Carl Davis the composer, probably his best-known and best-admired capacity. Indeed as such...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

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