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Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2. Concert Fantasy

Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto has had a mixed history. It has always lived in the shadow of the First Concerto,...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1997

Hurlstone Chamber Works

Felled by bronchial pneumonia aged just 30, William Hurlstone (b1876) was one of Stanford’s favourite pupils at London’s Royal College...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2003

Haydn String Quartets Op 74

On The Lindsays’ DVD reviewed in October Peter Cropper claims that, for a string quartet, the quest for technical perfection...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2005

Mozart Concert Arias

Evidently DG know gold when they see it. Barely more than a year after these Mozart concert arias were included...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Buxtehude Complete Organ Works

What better way to mark the 300th anniversary of Buxtehude’s death in 1707 than with this wonderful box-set? Its 77...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 5/2007

Boccherini Chamber Works

The three quintets that fill most of this CD have not, as far as I know, been recorded before. Boccherini's...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1991

Schumann Lieder

There have been few, if any, complete recordings of Myrthen; at any rate none is at present available. Considered uneven...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992

Bach Christmas Oratorio

After the discomfort of an initial discrepancy in pitch between timpani—a fraction sharp—and the remainder of the band I soon...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1992

Dawn Upshaw - Voices of Light

In 1997 Dawn Upshaw gave one of her most enterprising recitals at Wigmore Hall, in which she juxtaposed the same...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 3/2005

Crown of Thorns - Eton Choirbook, Vol.2

The core of this record is the three grand settings of Stabat mater dolorosa that survive in the Eton Choirbook....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1992

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