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Mendelssohn Works for Cello & Piano

Christophe Coin's new excursion into the early romantic cello repertoire, has, I fear, been only partially successful. His Harmonia Mundi...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1993

Beethoven Complete Symphonies

In a witheringly funny piece on the current state of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Michael Henderson observed that “if Proust...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2007

Bach Goldberg Variations

Here’s a first: Bach’s Goldberg Variations as scored for two oboes, one cor anglais and one bassoon by Andrei Eshpai....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2008

Summertime

It would be hard to devise a song­miscellany more attractive than this‚ bringing together so many popular favourites as well...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Haydn Symphonies Nos 100 & 104

A disappointing coupling and one that does little to enhance Klemperer's reputation. As it happens the first movement of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1985

Martinu Flute Trio; Flute Sonatas

The works brought together on this new disc do not constitute Bohuslav Martin≤’s complete chamber music for flute – the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2011

Cathedral & Organ Music

The record is designed as a tribute to Herbert Sumsion, organist and choirmaster of Gloucester Cathedral for most of his...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Kodály, Smetana & Dvorák String Quartets

Testament continue the good work in restoring the Hollywood Quartet recordings to currency and indeed bring one performance to the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1996

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky’s suite depicts particular paintings (11, to be precise, by his late friend Viktor Hartmann); Sposalizio was inspired by Raphael’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011

An Evening with Victoria De Los Angeles

It would be only truthful to say that I approached this recital with some trepidation. Would it be difficult to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

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