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Works for oboe and cor anglais with orchestra

Least familiar among these composers is Josef Fiala, admired by Mozart as oboe player, oboe teacher, orchestra trainer and composer....

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Paganini/Wieniawski Violin Concertos

Mark Kaplan is a formidable player indeed—fully equal to all that these bravura concertos demand, both technically and musically. Mitch...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1989

Trevor Hold Piano Works

Trevor Hold is a man of many parts: a composer and a poet, who has spent much of his life...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Anthony Goldstone - 20th Century English Piano Works

This is an imaginatively conceived anthology, mostly recorded in 1991 and now reissued with the addition of Britten’s Idyll, but...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2006

Mahler Symphony No 2. Lieder

For savagery and scorn, some reviews of Sinopoli's London concerts have been unequalled in recent years. I am puzzled. I...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Mendelssohn Piano Quartets

The boy Mendelssohn's precocity never ceases to amaze: not even Mozart as a teenager was so complete a master of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1991

Mozart Lieder

Disappointments abound. The uneven edge of this experienced Mozartian's voice is exposed with uncomfortable clarity in such songs, and the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Prokofiev Piano Works

According to the current Classical Catalogue Prokofiev's two best-known piano concertos are not otherwise available on one disc. Put them...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 5,14,16

Following up the six previous issues in this series, this new disc brings the total of concertos now available from...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2000

Richard Strauss: Tone Poems

Not surprisingly this grouping of three symphonic poems has become a favourite—and generous—coupling on record. Those versions listed are not...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1984

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