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Music for Viola

Lars Anders Tomter and Havard Gimse make a fine partnership here, in a revealing programme of works by two near-contemporaries....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/1998

Britten Curlew River, Op 71

St Giles, Cripplegate has a wonderful acoustic, often used for recordings, but here it sounds cavernous. Was this deliberate, an...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1996

The Art of Conducting 2

Teldec’s action-packed “The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past” won the 1995 Gramophone Video Award, and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Keyboard concertos

Boccherini is scarcely known as a keyboard composer, and in fact there is some doubt as to whether the work...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1987

Schubert Masses

Bruno Weil has already released three of Schubert’s Masses on disc. The four remaining ones have now appeared in time...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1994

Ballad for Grieg

You wait half an hour for a bus and then four arrive nose-to-tail. Having welcomed in the March issue the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream. Erste Walpurgisnacht.

Harnoncourt's performance of the Midsummer Night's Dream music is not quite complete, since the ''Fairies' March'' and the ''Funeral March''...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Sibelius Violin Concerto; (The) Bard

Frank Peter Zimmermann’s recent Sony anthology of the Symanowski and Britten concertos (A/09) was a classy, richly stimulating affair and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2011

Bach Goldberg Variations

There is no shortage of competition in The Classical Catalogue for anyone embarking on a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

Vladimir Ashkenazy’s recorded partnerships with Kondrashin, Previn, Haitink, Ormandy and, as conductor, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, testify to his enduring affection...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

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