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French Wind Music

Why is it that the French have traditionally excelled at writing for wind ensembles? Is it the instruments' individuality...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1993

Medtner Piano Works, Volume 5

The fifth volume of Geoffrey Tozer’s eloquent traversal of Medtner’s solo piano music coincides with the release of Dover Publications’...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1998

Vainberg Chamber Works

The fourth volume of Olympia's series devoted to Moishei Vainberg comprises recordings made as long ago as 1963 and 1976....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1995

Dall'Abaco Sonatas for Violin & Continuo (1708)

Felice Dall'Abaco's first published set of 1708 is an unexpected joy. Here is a composer who thrives on refined and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2000

Sinding piano works

Christian Sinding is a little better represented on record nowadays than he was a decade or so ago. Two of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1987

Telemann Paris Quartets

The six works in this programme were published by Telemann in Hamburg in 1730 under the title Quadri a violino,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1996

Beethoven/Schubert String Quartets

With this performance, the Hagen Quartet seem resolved to provide argument refuting facile suggestions of Op. 135 as ''a reversion...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1992

Haydn: Arias & Cantatas

The Handel and Haydn Society is America's oldest performing arts organization still in existence, having been founded in 1815—a mere...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1990

Scarlatti & Hasse Choral works

This is a bit of a mixed bag to be honest, though none the less worth hearing for that. Domenico...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1996

Bach Matthäus-Passion

In my St Matthew ‘Collection’ article (April), Bruno Kittel’s 1942 performance was covered somewhat equivocally on the basis of some...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2004

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