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C.Halffter Violin Concerto No 1; Mural Sonante

Cristobal Halffter (b.1930) has won deserved praise for his efforts, as promoter and conductor, on behalf of contemporary music. That...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1997

Phalesius Première Livre de Danseries

The Leuven Dance Book of 1571 is a splendid anthology of popular dances disseminated by one of the Low Countries’...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1999

Barber Piano Concerto; Essays Nos 1-3

The two recordings of the Piano Concerto by John Browning are a distinctly hard act to follow. The first, in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2011

Josef Hassid: the complete recordings (1939/40); The Young Ricci

The two 12-inch 78s containing Sarasate's ''Playera'' and ''Zapateado,'' Dvorak's Humoreske and Achron's Hebrew Melody played by Josef Hassid and...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 9/1987

Kuhlau Theatre Music

Kuhlau left his native Germany when Hamburg was overrun by Napoleon's armies in 1810 and settled in Copenhagen. There he...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993

Haydn & Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos

Strange bedfellows, Haydn and Vieuxtemps: the one conspicuous for his lack of the virtuoso streak and rarely at his best...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 4/1983

Chopin Piano Works, Vol. 3

This is a very well-meaning recital. Rigutto (an Italian-French pianist wholly new to me though not, I see, to the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1995

R Strauss Arabella

This transfer to DVD from VHS has the inestimable advantage of including subtitles‚ an essential in such a conversation piece...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2001

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4. Norfolk Rhapsody No 1

This offers a powerful, invigorating performance of a symphony which itself has those characteristics in perhaps a greater degree than...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Dupont Poème

Gabriel Dupont, born in 1878, was a pupil of Massenet and Widor and, probably encouraged by his friendship with Vierne,...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2003

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