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Bach Orchestral Suites, etc

For his recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites and the Concerto in A minor Andrew Parrott has deserted his Taverner...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1993

Brahms, Glinka & Suk: Piano Works

The Tateno recording was made in the Jarvenpaa Hall, Finland and Jarvenpaa was where Sibelius built the villa in which...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1990

Dvorák Symphony 6 & Janácekek Sinfonietta

Assessing Kubelík’s imposing 1972 DG account with the Berlin PO of Dvo·ák’s Sixth Symphony in my October 2000 Gramophone Collection‚...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2001

Mozart Keyboard Works

Reviewing the LP last October, I praised the choice of programme and the richness and sense of scale in Barenboim's...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Works for Wind Quintet

These five agreeable works receive suitably relaxed performances, with Rossini predictably emerging as the most attractive composer of the five....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1988

Bei Strauss

Just as Strauss showed his mastery of the orchestra in his early Don Juan (1889), so with Lieder he gave...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2011

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 4 and 8

Anyone wondering whether to invest in a Glazunov cycle could do a lot worse than start here. Composed in 1893,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2004

Europa Konzert 2010

I wonder if any students who leapt off Magdalen Bridge on May 1 last year made their bedraggled way to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2011

Bach & Chopin: Piano Works

Perhaps it's only fair to start by passing on Dr Marc Gertsch's warning in the booklet that these are ''amateur...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1990

Schmitt Piano and Orchestral Works

The welcome revival of interest in Florent Schmitt's music continues, with the Symphonie concertante and Reves new to the current...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1994

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