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Baroque Recorder Works

The most musically substantial work in this recorder recital is a transcription from E minor to G minor of Bach's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1987

Songs by Finzi and His Friends

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Dictators arose and slapped Democracy on the left...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Bartók Contrasts; Violin Sonatas

Laurent Korcia plays Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto as if he’s known it and loved it since birth. Everything sounds so...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2006

J.C. Bach Orchestral Works

This is a very appealing selection of orchestral music by J. C. Bach, a composer who has never been generously...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1993

Bach/Mendelssohn St Matthew Passion

When Mendelssohn conducted Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Berlin Singakademie in March 1829 the public was greatly impressed by...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1993

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 5

One could say that Liszt made two different types of transcription: firstly, there are the ones that he intended for...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1990

Weill (The) Seven Deadly Sins

This is a first in two important ways. It’s the first commercial recording of The Seven Deadly Sins in English...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1998

Wagner Orchestral Works

The good-natured exuberance of the opening Third Act Lohengrin Prelude, brightly and naturally recorded, with trombones and horns telling superbly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987

A Window in Time - Rachmaninov Plays Rachmaninov

The day I believe in these recordings will be the day when someone discovers Rachmaninov diary fragments that chronicle a...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Schubert Piano Works

In his 1975 LP recording of the C minor Sonata (nla) Brendel didn't repeat the first movement's exposition. Here he...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1989

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