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Pandolfi Violin Sonatas

As you may be as much in the dark about Pandolfi as I was, let me pass on Andrew Manze's...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1994

Julian Bream - Guitar Recital

The last time I heard Julian Bream live was in Australia in the late ’80s. Following a break in the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 8/2005

Haydn Violin Concertos in A and C; Mozart Sinfonia Concertante

Haydn wrote four violin concertos, not three as stated in the booklet-note. And Christa Landon, in her 1959 edition of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2009

Allegro Danzante - One Century of Italian Music for Clarinet and Piano

I enjoyed this set a great deal and for those in search of a reliable sampling track, I’d recommend trying...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2010

Gubaidulina Vocal Works

Sofia Gubaidulina has an extraordinary gift for dissolving the materials of music into her own spirit-world and re-shaping them there...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Szymanowski Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4

There seems to be no contest between these two accounts of Szymanowski’s Second Symphony. Sinaisky’s reading is the result of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996

Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 2

This, the third CD in a projected cycle of the complete orchestral works of Beethoven is a dazzling and refreshing...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Orff Carmina Burana

More than 50 recordings of Orff’s lusty scenic cantata are currently available, dwarfing those of all his other pieces put...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2005

Purcell Dido and Aeneas, etc

Needing the ten minutes of The Gordian Knot Unty'd (delicious music, magically played) to bring it up to a marketable...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1995

Raitio Queen of the Flowers

In the early 1970s George Rochberg (b1918) caused a uproar when he embraced an eclectic style that included old-fashioned tonality...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2003

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