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Bach Concertos

It was a good plan to issue all Bach’s multiple keyboard concertos together, but in the outcome it meets with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1998

M. Haydn: Concertos

My reservations about aspects of the playing of the Oradea Philharmonic Orchestra (see above) apply equally here but the same...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1990

Beethoven/Mozart Piano & Wind Quintets

A captivating record. To be sure, if you like the Viennese classics to sound suave and demure, it may not...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1998

Bach Violin Sonatas, BWV1014-19

I begin with the unfashionable suggestion that there is still much to be said for having these wonderful works played...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Holst The Planets

Yet another recording of The Planets by an international orchestra and non-British conductor. It always strikes me as odd that...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Lord Berners; Lambert Film Music

There are novelties and first recordings here, all masterminded by Philip Lane whose sterling service to film composers continues unabated....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2008

Benjamin Into The Little Hill

George Benjamin’s 36-minute “lyric tale” Into the Little Hill taps into the rich vein of English music theatre stemming from...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2008

Brahms Violin Concerto; String Sextet No 2

This account of the Violin Concerto is noteworthy in several ways. Instead of the familiar Joachim cadenza in the first...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2011

Music for Vihuela

The vihuela was a Spanish renaissance speciality, shaped like a guitar and sounding like a lute. A whole hour of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/1999

Martha Argerich and Friends at Lugano 2010

Tired of the strains and stresses of her former and extraordinary career, Martha Argerich now takes up annual residence in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2011

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