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C.P.E.Bach Flute Concertos

The three concertos on this new disc all exist in versions for solo instruments other than the flute. Which versions...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1993

Beethoven Lieder

We habitually recognise the importance of the pianist in Beethoven’s sonatas for violin or cello, but it makes a change...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2003

Beethoven; Haydn Scottish Folksong Arrangements

If I had to choose only one of Dame Janet Baker’s recital discs‚ it would be ‘A Pageant of English...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

D. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Pierre Hantai is not yet 30 and won the Bruges harpsichord competition when only 19. With the boldness of youth,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1993

Ferström Symphony No. 6/Concertino/The Capricious Troubadour

Although John Fernstrom (1897-1961) was born in China into a family of missionaries, he spent much of his working life...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2000

Barrett transmission

The violent end of the world is perhaps dark enough matter for Richard Barrett. His interference for contrabass clarinet, male...

Reviewed by aspicer in issue: 8/2006

Mozart Symphonies Nos 10-11, 42, 44-46

Harnoncourt’s approach to these teenage symphonies, most of them composed for Italy and characteristically Italianate in their easy buffo brilliance,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999

American Choral & Orchestral Works

Two relatively unknown works by Barber, recorded in the mid 1970s, are the main attraction on this Louisville First Edition...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1990

Telemann: Horn Concertos

Telemann was amongst the first composers to write concertos for solo horn as opposed to featuring it either as an...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1985

Brahms Symphony No. 2

It has long been realised that Brahms’s Second Symphony is not as amiable as its lyric opening, major-key orientation and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2009

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