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Holmboe Concertos Nos 8 & 10

Why, I wonder, has it taken BIS so long to release these recordings (made between May 1998 and June 1999)?...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2004

Tchaikovsky: Piano Works

Even by his strongest advocates Tchaikovsky's G major Sonata has been adjudged a failure guilty of note-spinning without due care...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Mozart An Italian Journey

Recital albums of Mozart’s tenor arias are astonishingly rare, so kudos to Jeremy Ovenden and Jonathan Cohen for conveying the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2011

Bach Violin Sonatas, Vol 2

The first volume of Bach violin sonatas from Jacqueline Ross and David Ponsford (5/02) offered a refreshing change to the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2002

(The) Gulda Mozart Tapes

In 2006 DG released Friedrich Gulda’s “lost” Mozart tapes in the form of 10 sonatas and the C minor Fantasia...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2008

Schurmann Violin Concerto; Concertos for Orchestra

Gerard Schurmann’s impressive and hugely entertaining Concerto for Orchestra is fairly recent (1996: written for the centenary of the Pittsburgh...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Voice stories

Completed in 1899, The Garden of Proserpine was Vaughan Williams’s first large-scale composition, a 24-minute setting for soprano, chorus and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2011

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1-5

Thepros and cons of live recording have often provoked discussion at our ''Sounds in Retrospect'' listening sessions. Probably though, none...

Reviewed in issue 8/1984

Glass; Moran (The) Juniper Tree

This two-act opera dates from the year after Philip Glass’s Akhnaten but is little known, although there were several productions...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2009

Monteverdi (L')Incoronazione di Poppea

How interesting it would be to be able to hear Vincent d’Indy’s score of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, or Hindemith’s for that...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1998

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