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Haydn Cello Concertos. Sinfonia Concertante. Adagio cantabile

What a versatile artist Steven Isserlis is. Having made his name as a sympathetic interpreter of a wide variety of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/1998

(The) Unknown Richard Strauss, Vol 5

Koch Schwann’s ‘Unknown Strauss’ edition is proving something of a misnomer. This fifth volume, a pleasant selection of waltzes containing...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Beethoven Edition - Arrau

When EMI made their various sonata and concerto recordings with Claudio Arrau in the 1950s, his reputation in this country...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1992

Leal Amour - Flemish Composers at the Court of Philip II

Egidius is a Dutch male-voice foursome whose members have performed extensively with several international ensembles (they are supplemented here by...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1999

Russian Piano Works

I thought extremely highly of Lars Vogt's debut recital (EMI, 5/92), going so far as to say that I had...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1993

Reicha String Quintets

There will be listeners who have come across the Paris string quartets in the so-called quatuor concertant manner, that is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1993

Elgar The Kingdom; Orchestral Works

Now there are three CD versions of Elgar's last oratorio, The Kingdom, from which to choose—yet when Boult's EMI recording...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Mendelssohn String Quartets

Any encounter with Mendelssohn’s string quartets is bound to prompt at least some degree of appreciation, and this final instalment...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Danzi Bassoon Quartets

As the scholar and bassoonist William Waterhouse observes in his edition of these quartets, the “combination presents the bassoon to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1997

Handel Coronation Anthems

There are plenty of very good recordings of the four anthems that Handel composed for the coronation of King George...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2009

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