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Finzi Violin Concerto etc.

Finzi began work on his Concerto for small orchestra and solo violin in 1925, dedicating it to Sybil Eaton (a...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Lim (The) Heart's Ear

Liza Lim’s music brings, it would seem, a metaphysical baggage with it. According to the insert notes by Max Nyffeler...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2003

Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra; Berg Violin Concerto

Did his mastery of mainstream European orchestral music leave Rudolf Kempe at a loss when confronted with Tippett’s Utopian synthesis...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2007

Alnæs; Sinding Piano Concertos

For the 42nd issue in its “Romantic Piano Concerto” series, Hyperion turns for inspiration to Norway and, in a first...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2007

Cortot plays Chopin

Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima is a cycle of seven cantatas, each one of which is an address to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1996

Bach Cantatas, BWV 35/169/170

Of Bach’s four solo alto cantatas, Monica Groop foregoes only the early Widerstehe doch der Sunde (No. 54), a work...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1999

Wagner Götterdämmerung

Naxos’s first modern Ring cycle ends, as it began, with a thoroughly professional, (almost) unexceptionable performance that served well as...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 8/2007

French Violin Sonatas Vol. 2

Virtually half a century of French violin music – and what a gulf between the clean-cut classicism of Saint-Saens’s 1885...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Music for Two Pianos

A disappointing record. The late John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas adopt, too often, a rather hard and aggressive style, it...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Adam Le Toréador

Richard Bonynge’s ability to persuade Decca to record out-of-the-way nineteenth-century French stage works has been to our repeated benefit over...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1998

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