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Mozart Violin Sonatas, K454 & K481
This is Volume 5 of a set of the Mozart violin sonatas that has been generally well received. I have...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1986
Stiles Just So
Chichester Festival Cast | David Shrubsole
Composer George Stiles and writer Anthony Drewe seem at home with the adventurous and imaginative in their musicals, as with...
Reviewed by jsnelson in issue: 8/2006
Valéry Gergiev in Rehearsal & Performance
Alexander Toradze | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Here is a DVD that delivers as much as it promises: which is to say‚ a great deal. The documentary...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Fiocco Missa Solemnis
Joseph Hector Fiocco, known to many would-be pianists and violinists (and their parents) for a charming little Allegro, was a...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2003
Violin Concertos at the Court of Weimar
(The) Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin | Siân Ritchie
The idea behind this recording, that of assembling concertos which, to a greater or lesser extent probably provided Bach with...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1989
Toscanini Collection, Vol.38
Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra
Gershwin's piece is delivered with splendid panache and good humour, and Grofe's harmless picture-postcard Suite is brilliantly brought to life....
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
Schubert String Quartets, Vol. 8
Andreas Seidel | Leipzig Quartet | Tilmann Büning
These are spacious, fine-toned performances of two of the four quartets Schubert wrote in his 17th year. The Leipzig Quartet...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Holst Orchestral Works
Another splendid trawl through the treasurable Lyrita back-catalogue. Here's an uncommonly wide-ranging and generous selection of Holstian delights, encompassing music...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1993
Haydn Piano Trio No 30. Shostakovich Cello Concerto No1; Piano Trio No 2
Emil Gilels | Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra | Leonid Kogan
The real prizes here are the Trio performances – svelte readings, perceptively phrased, technically magnificent and with a furious pace...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Herbert, M - Songs
Ailish Tynan | David Owen Norris | James Gilchrist
Muriel Herbert (1897- 1984) was a protégée of Roger Quilter, who arranged for the earliest publication of some of her...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 8/2009
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