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Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

In the Beethoven the shock of the old comes right at the start, long before the entry of Monica Huggett...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1994

Bach Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection

Fifteen years ago the existence of the Neumeister Collection – a compendium of 82 organ chorale preludes including 38 by...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2000

Saint-Saëns Africa

Saint-Saëns was greatly regarded in his time but his reputation has slipped in our own, when ready tunefulness, elegance, craftsmanship...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2007

Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte

This somewhat controversial staging opened earlier this year to a mixed reception. It treats the ever-elusive work very seriously indeed,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003

Mozart Orch/Inst/Choral/Operatic Works

If we are right to celebrate or commemorate the major anniversaries of the great musicians, and surely we are, the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1990

Kapell in recital

What remarkable talent is shown by the 14-year-old Kapell in his incomplete reading of Beethoven’s Third Concerto. That brilliance, allied...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1998

Alan Rawsthorne: Orchestral and Chamber Works

Perhaps because of its serious demeanour, Alan Rawsthorne's music has always been something of a minority interest. Today, 14 years...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Brahms Symphony 1

There is, as yet, no completely recommendable Brahms First on CD and this new version from Paita does not greatly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1986

Rutter I My Best Loved's Am

In an introductory note, the composer welcomes this, 'the first major recording of my choral music from a German-based choir'....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

D. Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas

It has been a whole year since the first disc of Staier's Scarlatti series (which figured in my most recent...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1993

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