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Brahms Viola Sonatas

A robust reading of the first of the swansong Sonatas traces the progression from Allegro appassionato opening to Vivace finale...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 11/1999

F. Couperin Mass for Parish Services

The two organ masses comprising Couperin's pieces d'orgue are his earliest surviving compositions. They were the fruits of his first...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991

Mendelssohn Middsummer Night's Dream

As long ago as 1976 EMI had the idea of recording Mendelssohn’s incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream absolutely...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

Khachaturian Film Suites

Khachaturian wrote his first film score in 1934, the year he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. The film, Pepo, was...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1997

Beethoven (The) Complete Piano Concertos

It has been clear for some time that Evgeny Kissin is a Beethoven player of rare pedigree and distinction, the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2008

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

Attempting to summarize early nineteenth-century romanticism (in the introduction to a booklet on Beethoven's middle-period string quartets) Dr Gerald Abraham,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986

Holst The Planets

Previn is busy recording and re-recording English masterpieces with the RPO since he became its conductor. His performance of The...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Handel; Telemann Water Music

Recordings of Handel’s Water Music come in floods, those of Telemann’s Wassermusik (more properly titled Hamburger Ebb und Fluth) in...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart Works for Flute & Orchestra

''I become quite powerless when I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear'', Mozart told his...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1989

Chausson Le Roi Arthus

One does not need to be a very perspicacious musical detective to deduce, from Chausson's only published opera, that he...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1986

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