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Trilogy

The fact that Ofra Harnoy chooses to record the Grutzmacher arrangement of Boccherini speaks for itself: this is a CD...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1993

Elgar Orchestral Works

What can one say? One loves Barbirolli's Elgar in spite of everything. In this instance 'everything' might refer to his...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1993

Iain Quinn - Tender Is The North

This must be one of the finest recordings of Coventry Cathedral’s glorious Harrison and Harrison organ since Graham Barber’s pioneering...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 7/2010

Salieri (Les) Danaides

According to Virgil, the priest Laocoon expressed his suspicions of the Trojan horse in the phrase “Timeo Danaos et dona...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2008

Brahms Clarinet Sonatas & 4 Ernste Gesänge

And still they come, whether from clarinet or Brahms’s approved alternative, the viola. Each recent version has a caring quality...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1998

American Song Recital

This is the first recital disc by Sanford Sylvan, best known for his work with the American minimalist John Adams....

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

R. Strauss/Stravinsky Suites

Two masterly examples of time-travelling are here performed by the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, which is based in Maastricht where the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Monteverdi (L') Orfeo

In a perceptive documentary made during rehearsals, director Pierre Audi comments that L’Orfeo is ‘an opera about the crisis of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2006

Bartók & Prokofiev Violin concertos

Pierre Hofer is a new name to me. So too is the Institut National de la Communication (in Paris?) from...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Brahms Piano Concerto No 2

Here is a disc to arouse curiosity. Taken from the Italian archives, these broadcast performances date from 1960 and, as...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2004

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