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Dvorak Violin Concerto in A Minor Op.53; Legends Op.59

Richard Tognetti, the Australian violinist best known as the leader and later music director of the excellent Australian Chamber Orchestra,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010

Copland Symphony No 3; Billy the Kid Suite

This time there’s no question about Naxos claiming these two works as American Classics. The first of Copland’s three popular...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Finzi Cello Concerto. Leighton Veris gratia

At first sight you might think it wasteful duplication to record Finzi's Cello Concerto again, so soon after its outstandingly...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1986

Haydn/Mozart Violin Concertos

Isabelle van Keulen is the tall attractive teenager who won the ''Young Musician of the Year'' competition in Geneva in...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Hummel Works for Violin & Piano

The sonatas come from different periods of Hummel's life, that in E flat (which was originally for viola) from 1798,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1984

Berg. Schoenberg. Webern. Songs

Dorothy Dorow's all-but-complete recording of Webern's songs (only two for bass voice are omitted) is now joined on CD by...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1988

Vermeulen Symphonies Nos 2, 6 & 7

Matthijs Vermeulen (1888-1967) may have been his own worst enemy, though Willem Mengelberg might have growled in rejoinder ‘Not while...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/2002

Ravel Piano Concertos; Honegger Concertino etc

The Kocsis/Fischer Philips disc of the Ravel concertos is now followed by another, though with an even more ear-tickling coupling...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1996

Orchestrations by Sir Henry Wood

In 1929 Sir Henry Wood, fearing from past experience that any Bach arrangement of his would be singled out for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 27

Barenboim is assured and broadly enjoyable in both these concertos, but also perhaps a little idiosyncratic in such a way...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1987

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