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Earl Cello Sonata; Piano Suite No. 3

The Gramophone Debate in the March issue asked “Where are the tunes?” John Rutter admitted to “a sadness that we...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2008

Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 1-5; Symphony No 39

As in his woefully attended late-night Prom with the Salzburg Camerata this summer, Leonidas Kavakos reveals himself as a lucid,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2006

Bach Partitas, BWV825-30

Bach published his six keyboard Partitas in 1731, when they formed the first volume of his Clavier-Ubung. Forkel, Bach's earliest...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1987

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel La Valse

Here are sets of Pictures to suit almost every personal art gallery. The newest issue (though not the most recently...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1985

The Sound of the Academy

It is very agreeable, in an age of specialism, to find the Academy taking a rest from earlier music and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Rossini (La) Pietra del paragone

This is an utterly remarkable and fantastically enjoyable theatre-cum-video staging of Rossini's La pietra del paragone. Philippe Béziat, who has...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2008

Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 & Vocalise

For concertgoers of my generation, Rachman-inov’s Second Symphony was off the musical map until the early 1970s. Paul Kletzki was...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Dvorák Rusalka

Two budget-price CDs here, note, instead of the three full-price for the highly acclaimed Decca recording (11/98) under Mackerras; but...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Delius/Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

William Boughton imparts tremendous zest to VW's Wasps Overture, fully in keeping with its breezy nature, and he gives the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Heifetz plays Beethoven & Brahms Concertos

It was only last month that I wrote about Heifetz's marvellous performance of the Brahms Concerto in its remastered reissue...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

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