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Bartók Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2

Arabella Steinbacher and Marek Janowski offer us Bartók in 3D, the three dimensions not only spatial but emotional as well....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010

Handel/Mozart Solo Motets

Those for whom Sylvia McNair can do no wrong will love this disc. Three of the most tempting motets in...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1994

Wagner Das Rheingold

This is a lame, undramatic Rheingold. Levine actually manages to make most of this prologue to the great cycle seem...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1990

Weill Street Scene

Street Scene is the most ambitious product of Weill's American years, and the work he reckoned the fulfilment of his...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/1991

Bach Concerto Transcriptions

Rather to my surprise, when digital transfers usually bring out idiosyncrasies of recording the more distractingly, this CD leaves me...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Bach Goldberg Variations

The booklet-notes accompanying Nick van Bloss’s Goldberg Variations contain an interview in which the pianist cites his youthful impressions of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2011

Takemitsu Garden Rain

These are bountiful times for Takemitsu’s admirers. For those with bottomless pockets or unlimited overdraft facilities, endless shelf-space and an...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2005

Khachaturian Cello Concerto; Concerto-Rhapsody

Khachaturian’s 1946 Cello Concerto has never been as popular as the ones for piano or violin. It certainly got off...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2010

Schmidt String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Franz Schmidt’s marvellous First Quartet (1925) is a substantial, consummately argued and exquisitely deft achievement which, like its even more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

Zani Concerti da Chiesa, Op.II.

Andrea Zani was born in 1696 and worked for a time in Vienna. His Op. 2 (1729) consists of six...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999

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