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Kreisler Violin Works
Fritz Kreisler’s many short pieces for violin and piano – original compositions, arrangements and stylistic parodies – remain a rich...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2009
Haydn Orchestral Works
Dorati’s elegantly poised account of Haydn’s Trauersinfonie – with its prolongation of the Adagio’s mood of contemplation with a smooth,...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
R.Strauss Symphony in F minor,Op 12
Michael Halász | Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Only a short time ago I was welcoming Strauss's early unpublished D minor Symphony into the catalogue (6220 323, 2/86)....
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Stanford Symphony No.2/Clarinet Concerto
Janet Hilton | Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley
The spirits of Parry and Stanford should be haunting Chandos in the most favourable ways imaginable. With this premiere recording...
Reviewed in issue 1/1992
REBER Piano Trios Nos 3, 5 & 7
With the passing of time, Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807-80) has disappeared into the footnotes of music history, but his parents obviously...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
SAINT-SAËNS (La) Muse et la Poete. Cello Concerto No 1. Symphony No 1
Augustin Dumay | Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra | Pavel Gomziakov | Sachio Fujioka
La muse et le poète for violin, cello and orchestra is, compared with the other two works on this disc,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2012
Rubinstein, A Cello Sonatas
Brahms, who had a high regard for Rubinstein, was said to wish that he took more trouble with composition. It...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2009
Menuhin plays Paganini
Speaking of the 1934 Paganini Concerto recording in the context of the video “Yehudi Menuhin – The Violin of the...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Romantics in England - Cello & Piano Works
Joseph Spooner | Kathryn Mosley | Michael Jones
The recordings on this CD of sonatas by Walter Macfarren (rather less well known than his blind brother-composer, George) and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 9/2009
Dvorak; Strauss, R Cello Chamber Works
Richard Strauss’s youthful Cello Sonata is often described, following Norman Del Mar’s classic study of his music, as influenced by...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2009
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