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Works for Solo Violin

I found Viktoria Mullova's performance of the Bach B minor Partita quite enthralling throughout. Without ever minimizing the resources of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988

Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey

There can be no doubt that Sinatra reached his peak with the recordings he made for Capitol with Nelson Riddle...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

Hummel Chamber Works

For those who like to put composers into neat pigeonholes Hummel has always presented a problem – he dwelt on...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: /2000

Wiener Piano Works

''Everybody knows, or at least thinks he knows, the composer Jean Wiener,'' says the sleeve-note, a trifle optimistically. Well, it...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Recordings of the Missa solemnis have previously been categorised as the very few we might call ‘great’ and the others...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

Berners Orchestral Works

This is a most welcome reissue of some of the most attractive British music of the period in fine performances....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1994

Villa-Lobos Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Villa-Lobos’s music for violin and piano is notably derivative of the fin de siecle French schools, Faure especially, though the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Lennox Berkeley Piano Music

Ending with the Sonata, the programme seems exactly right; for here Berkeley writes with a wider and deeper aim than...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Provenzale Motets

Volume 6 of Antonio Florio and Cappella de’ Turchini’s ambitious survey of the finest baroque Neapolitan music returns to the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1999

Shostakovich Symphonies

Inbal’s Shostakovich cycle is an acquired taste. Some listeners find only a pale facsimile of the original scores – denatured...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

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