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Vivaldi Cello Sonatas

Julius Berger plays Vivaldi's nine cello sonatas on a modern cello at modern pitch and in each he prefers an...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1992

Sacred choral music

The Vaughan Williams setting of Psalm 47 impresses by its spacious structure and by its surprise cymbal clashes, even if...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Honegger Le Roi David (orig ver)

Naxos is not quite right in calling this the 'orignal version' of Honegger's dramatic psalm, which created a sensation when...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999

Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven

There is very little film available of Kempff and to see him playing the composer with whom he was most...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2004

Catoire Piano Works

Georgy Catoire (1861-1926) was a Russian composer of French extraction whose modest and outwardly conservative nature made for early neglect...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2000

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2, 'Lobgesang'

Like other new brooms, Andrew Litton sweeps as though to disturb the dust of ages and present the old work...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009

Hilde Gueden - As The World Knew Her

Gueden, as the notes (in German only) tell us, created a sensation at the Metropolitan, where she first appeared in...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1996

Bach Transcribed

In the realm of Romantic Bach transcriptions, Alessio Bax’s stylistic perception and palette of tone-colours have considerably deepened since his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2009

Szokolay Blood Wedding

Lorca's Blood Wedding looks like a gift to a composer; at least three operas and two ballets have already been...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Debussy/Berg Piano Works

The Debussy Etudes are a natural choice for Pollini's first recording devoted to the French impressionist repertoire. Each is a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

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