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Aufschnaiter Dulcis Fidium Harmonia

Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (1665-1742) was probably trained in Vienna during the 1680s, and he succeeded Georg Muffat as Kappellmeister of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2004

Miaskovsky Violin Concerto; Symphony 22

Like a recent correspondent, I once spent a frustrating time looking for Miaskovsky scores and records in Moscow. He is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Haydn Orchestral Works

Pleasant, direct performances of Haydn's last two symphonies, enjoyable up to a point. Despite the odd minor lapse, the playing...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1993

Elizabethan Songs: The Lady Musick

If a week can be a long time in politics, 13 years are likely to be no less in music....

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1991

Saint-Saëns Wind Chamber Works

Saint-Saëns’s acute ear for the personality of particular instruments is nowhere more conspicuous than in the three sonatas that he...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 3/2011

Howells Music for Violin and Piano

On the face of it the difference between 'early' and 'mature' Herbert Howells is easily explicable, since the date that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1994

Telemann Essercizii musici excerpts

Telemann's Essercizii Musici was published in Hamburg late in 1739 or in the following year. Its collection of alternating ''Solos''...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

R. Strauss Music for Wind

Given the very positive projection of London Winds' Hyperion set, these classic performances of a previous generation should find a...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Orchestral Works

A very enjoyable coupling. Monteux demonstrates that urgency, ardour, even impetuousness, are not at all foreign to Franck's nature, and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Xenakis: Miscellaneous Works

If the harpsichord seems an instrument unlikely to interest Iannis Xenakis, a composer known more for powerful forces and loud...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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