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Mendelssohn Concertos

These two boyhood works of Mendelssohn, dating from his early teens, make an excellent coupling, providing generous measure too, when...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

Brahms/Joachim Violin Works

As readers will most probably know, the two sets of Brahms's Hungarian Dances were originally scored for piano, four hands....

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1993

Baroque Trumpet Concertos

There seems to be an insatiable demand for collections of trumpet concertos, and sometimes when I see yet another one...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1991

Art Tatum - Improvisations

The aesthetics of this intriguing disc are interesting: in what sense can the recreations of a jazz pianist’s recorded improvisations...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2005

Goethe's Harper Songs and other lieder

This thoughtfully constructed programme opens with some of the best of Wolf's Goethe-Lieder, has the Michelangelo settings satisfyingly interpolated, and...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Recorded live in Montreux last February, Herreweghe's recording of the Missa solemnis vies with Gardiner's studio performance with period forces...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1995

Franz Lehár conducts Richard Tauber

What new can one say about Tauber singing Lehar under the composer's baton? Suffice it to say that, in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/1989

Milhaud String Quartets

Milhaud's admirers will need no reminder that his output was as uneven as it was enormous and that an issue...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1995

Bach Complete Partitas

Bernard Roberts’ view of Bach runs roughly along the lines of Schnabel’s‚ Serkin’s or Horszowski’s: in other words‚ it’s more...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2001

Martinu Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra, Vol 3

Martinu’s Suite concertante has as chequered a history as any work I know. Commissioned in 1938 by Samuel Dushkin –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2008

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