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Sterndale Bennett Orchestral Works
Hilary Davan Wetton | Malcolm Binns | Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra
If you came across this record in a browser box you might be attracted by the unusual repertoire, for this...
Reviewed in issue 6/1987
Scharwenka Chamber Works
Garbis Atmacayan | Ivo-Jan van der Werff | Levon Chilingirian | Seta Tanyel
These are world premiere recordings of two sadly neglected works (I am inclined to say masterpieces, even on a first...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1995
Chamber Works by Women Composers
Camilla Heller | Joseph Roche | Macalester Trio | Paul Freed | Robert Zelnick | Tamas Strasser
Four of the seven works included here are not otherwise available on CD. For such chivalrous acts of rescue gratitude...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1994
The Clarinet in Concert Vol 2
Andrew Litton | English Chamber Orchestra | Georgina Dobrée | James Judd | Thea King
I am indebted to Michael Freyhan's erudite note for information about these pretty well unknown works. Spohr's short variations are...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
Schumann Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, recent recipient of Gramophone’s Lifetime Achievement Award, never ceases to surprise with his enthusiasms. Compared to Gershwin’s Porgy...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0
SCHUMANN Choral Works
Before the First World War rendered all things German anathema, Schumann’s a cappella works, like Mendelssohn’s and Brahms’s, were choral...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
JS BACH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Joshua Bell
Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
LISZT Works for Two Pianos
Wikipedia describes the Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov as ‘a Bulgarian piano duo, considered both by the world music press...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)
I thought I was not going to enjoy this. Beethoven’s Eroica arranged for piano duet – one of the most...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW21
Bruch/Goldmark Violin Concertos
Gerard Schwarz | Nai-Yuan Hu | Seattle Symphony Orchestra
The Taiwanese Nai-Yuan Hu is yet another of those extraordinarily talented oriental violinists who have come to the West to...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1995
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