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Kreisler - Violin Concertos
Biddulph have already coupled the Beethoven Brahms and Mendelssohn performances on a two-disc set which also contains the dozen or...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
Eternal Life: Sacred Songs and Arias
There can never be a doubt that Amy Pfrimmer feels what she is singing. The American soprano brings a deep...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2017
Arthur Grumiaux - Recital
There was a patrician purity in everything that Arthur Grumiaux played, a violinist who represented the Belgian tradition established by...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2004
Romantic piano works
The Schubert Moments are probably the sort of thing at which Barenboim is best. They are so excellently judged throughout...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Christiane Karg: Scene!
Alina Pogostkina | Arcangelo | Christiane Karg | Jonathan Cohen | Malcolm Martineau
That indefatigable one-man libretto factory Pietro Metastasio is the linking thread in these scenas of damsels in extremis, complemented in Ch’io...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015
Michel Scwalbe plays Violin Concertos
Michel Schwalbe is probably best known as the distinguished First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic during the years 1957-86, the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999
Organ recital by Stephen Cleobury
I'm so pleased that the ''Great European Organs'' series on the Priory label has King's college, Cambridge, for its No...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
Scottish Overtures
Alexander Gibson | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
In discussing the original issue TH aptly commented that LPs of this kind do not usually make good continuous listening,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985
Organ recital
A surprising record altogether. It is unexpected but marvellous that Michael Woodward has turned his mircrophone in the direction of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1986
Romantic Trumpet Sonatas
Trumpet virtuosos have that old conundrum to deal with – seemingly unable to discover a core of contemporary repertoire which...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2011
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