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Bach Trio Sonatas

For many years musicians have appropriated Bach’s six organ Trio Sonatas (BWV525-30) for performance on a variety of melody instruments...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1996

(The) Queen's Music: Italian Vocal Duets and Trios

Emma Kirkby’s enormous and diverse discography as consort member, soloist or recitalist ranges from Hildegard to Haydn and, just having...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2011

Franco Platino - Guitar Recital

There is little that is unusual in the content of the programme; what is unusual is the standard of its...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2000

Shura Cherkassky - Recital

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Shura Cherkassky (he died in 1995). These two releases are timely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2009

Rouse Violin Concerto; Rapture; (Der) gerettete Alberich

Christopher Rouse (b1949) is one of the more genuinely individual composers working in today’s American mainstream. Having incorporated elements of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2004

Brahms Symphony No. 1

These two new versions of a much-recorded symphony could hardly be more sharply contrasted. Where Kondrashin's live recording made on...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1984

Janacek/Zemlinsky/Korngold

The foundations for Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass go down deep into old Slavonia. The churches and cathedrals have not yet been...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1999

Vieuxtemps Complete Violin Concertos

Now relegated by the dictates of musical fashion and Wagnerian hegemony to brief or absent entries in reference books, Henri...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011

Mozart String Quintets, Vol. 2

The particular quality of the textures in Mozart's late chamber music—contrapuntal isn't quite the word for it, as it goes...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1994

Gershwin Gold

A new recording of the original Grofe scoring of Rhapsody in B1ue, made for the first performance with Paul Whiteman's...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987

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