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Ives Complete String Quartet Works

These performances emphasise the European roots of Ives’s quartet music. The Leipzig play the second movement of the early Quartet...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 3/2003

Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne

How familiar we are all becoming with this strange dialect with its ''lou'' and ''jou'', its diaereses and odd terminations....

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Kancheli Symphonies 3 & 6

Giya Kancheli is one of a number of Soviet composers, now in their fifties, whose creative instincts were formed during...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Frank Bridge: Chamber and Vocal works

The Frank Bridge Trust and Pavilion Records on their Pearl label are making great headway in filling the gaps in...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

Transfiguration

“Transfiguration” courts controversy. How are we to take a performance recorded in bold, upfront digital sound that claims at least...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Twentieth-Century Orchestral Works

In terms of 'art music' alone, the 20th century offers a range of possibilities that would be difficult to encapsulate...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2000

Bach Violin Concertos

Such neat‚ lively‚ stylish playing‚ allied to a notably realistic‚ well­balanced recording‚ makes it easy to recommend this disc. I...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Ravel Piano Concertos, etc

Judging by the Left-Hand Concerto, Alicia de Larrocha and Leonard Slatkin (and what a versatile conductor he is) make a...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1993

Verdi Stiffelio

Two operas from the Verdi canon, making (not that it matters) an oddly assorted pair: Stiffelio (1850) from the early-middle...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2007

Bottesini Volume 3 - Passioni Amorose

Not for nothing was Bottesini described as the Paganini of the double-bass. ''Under his bow,'' wrote a contemporary, ''the double-bass...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1995

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