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Lalo Cello Concerto; Cello Sonata; Chants Russes for Cello & Piano

Maria Kliegel views the Concerto as a strong, dramatic work, and she has just the qualities – impressive, powerful tone...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Haydn: Orchestral Works

Here is, in effect a complete Haydn concert—and a very enjoyable one on the whole. Concentus Musicus play as spiritedly...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1990

Balakirev Piano Works, Vol.1

With the exception of the ever-popular Islamey, Balakirev’s piano works are largely products of his later years, and collectively (Islamey...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/1996

Takemitsu Orchestral Works

The main purpose of this disc appears to be to place Takemitsu in his Japanese context. Two of the other...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Wagner Lohengrin

Lohengrin is a drama of polarities, the good and the bad. So it is in this performance of the opera,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2010

Britten Premieres

These are ‘premieres’ not only in the sense of ‘first recordings’ (the Ceremony of Carols, the pieces for two pianos...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1996

Beecham conducts Handel

Now that Stokowski’s colourful Bach transcriptions have been widely appreciated on disc, it is time that Beecham’s delectable Handel confections...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1997

Vivaldi Sacred Works

Trevor Pinnock and Michael Chance have devised a programme of sacred music by Vivaldi which should touch, if not melt,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1997

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Old men who insist on climbing mountains are a phenomenon to be wondered at. The late I. A. Richards, godfather...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1987

Rêverie et Caprice

It is five years since the Canadian violinist, Chantal Juillet, with this same conductor and orchestra, recorded the two Szymanowski...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

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