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Paganini/Saint-Saëns Violin Works

Paganini would surely have been utterly astonished. Sarah Chang (Gramophone's 1993 Young Artist of the year) who has already given...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1995

Bach Cantatas, Vol 24

As joyful and awe-inspiring as John Eliot Gardiner’s commemorative Bach Cantata Pilgrimage surely was, it must also have been an...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 8/2005

Berlioz Roméo et Juliette; Nuits d'été

There are several choral contributions in Romeo et Juliette—setting the scene after the orchestral introduction, echoing the tenor's words in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1990

Bach Cantatas, Vol 47

Late works from Trinity 1726 and a revered and substantial Advent cantata constitute this variable volume of readings from Masaaki...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2011

Webern Orchestral Music

Fifty­two minutes is all it takes to cover Webern’s orchestral music‚ at least if the early tone­poem Im Sommerwind and...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

Mark-André Hamelin’s second set of Haydn sonatas confirms the adulation that greeted his first. Yet, if anything, it is even...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2009

Lukas Foss: Orchestral Works

The so-called Renaissance Concerto (dating from 1986) could, I think, build itself quite a following among deprived; flautists in search...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1989

Takemitsu Orchestral Works

‘Dream’, ‘Slow’, ‘Twilight’: these are the kind of words that give the key to Takemitsu’s later style, and all the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1999

Vivaldi Concerti and Cantate de camera

Naïve’s monumental Vivaldi series continues its sensible policy of mixing chamber cantatas and concertos in this third volume, in which...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2005

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra

Pretre as a Strauss conductor is not an automatic association of ideas until one remembers that he made his Paris...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

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