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Bruch/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

Compact Disc bring extra clarity to inner lines, adding to Mendelssohnian transparency, but otherwise the hard, bright and aggressive sound...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1985

Messiaen Piano Works

In case anyone were tempted to pigeon-hole Angela Hewitt as a Bach specialist (“one of the outstanding Bach pianists of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1998

Vaughan Williams Chamber Music

Vaughan Williams’ searching Second Quartet of 1942­44 is a key work in his output‚ straddling the very different worlds of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2002

The Piano Music of Ivor Gurney and Edward Elgar

Here is one of the more unusual contributions to Ivor Gurney's centenary. His songs and song-cycles are fairly well known,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Graupner Harpsichord Partitas

Geneviève Soly’s belief in Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) hasn’t faded. Here are two more Partitas to add to three offered last...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2003

Mozart Complete Piano Sonatas

From Chopin-Godowsky and Messiaen to Mozart is a wide step indeed, yet Joyce Hatto, who played a uniquely comprehensive repertoire...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2007

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 2 & 4

The transcription of Shostakovich quartets for larger forces goes back over four decades to Rudolf Barshai’s version of the Eighth....

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2008

Mozart Chamber Works

The clarinettist Jack Brymer was born in 1915 and has been prominent in British musical life since Beecham appointed him...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1993

Krebs Organ works in the style of Bach

For his second recording for ASV on this 1984 Peter Collins instrument, Graham Barber has turned from Bach ((CD) CD...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1991

Perspectives 3

Listeners who’ve followed Andreas Haefliger’s solid virtuosity and serious, thoughtful musicianship from his Sony Classical days (will they ever reissue...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008

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