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Primrose plays Handel, Mozart and Beethoven

The viola's baritonal tenor has always faced overwhelming solo competition from the violin's soprano and the cello's bass-baritone, a situation...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Vladimir Horowitz plays Favourite Chopin, Vol.2

Not for the first time on disc, I enjoyed Horowitz in the studio here more than on the concert platform,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989

African Rhythms

Highlighting the première recordings of Etudes 16-18, this is the perfect remedy for over-exposure to Ligeti’s polyrhythms and abounds in...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 10/2003

Robert Whyte The Greatest Glory of our Muses

Robert White is one of those hugely gifted composers whose posthumous reputation has suffered from the proximity of an even...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1996

Schütz: Motets for Double Choir

Like so many works of their kind, Schutz's motets for double choir are above all essays in contrast, of texture...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Hindemith/ Nielsen Concertos

I make it seven complete Nielsen symphony cycles currently available, assuming RCA are going to restore Berglund's Second and Fifth...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Verdi Overtures

The commanding call on trombones at the start of the overture to La forza del destino—by a fair margin the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1983

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (excs)

When The Ring was performed in Paris with great success in 1930, Pathe decided to record a succinct, potted version...

Reviewed in issue 5/2000

Dauvergne Concerts de simphonies

The eighteenth-century French composer Antoine Dauvergne is best remembered for his one-act ‘intermede’, Les Troqueurs (‘The Barterers’). Inspired by Pergolesi’s...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1999

Alexandrov Piano Music

This is rather a find. Even if you think you’ve heard of Alexandrov (or Aleksandrov)‚ you could well be thinking...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

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