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Beethoven/Bruch Violin Concertos

The German violinist Georg Kulenkampff enjoyed a very high reputation throughout Europe during the inter-war period, but his career came...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

The Guitar in Spain: "Guitarra"

The frontiers of the guitar are now far wider than those of Iberia, as they have been since the earliest...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1985

Strauss, R Friedenstag

Although it’s never likely to become frequently performed (a one­acter – but what could one pair it with? – it...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2001

Liszt (The) Essential Organ Works

I cannot recall such a comprehensive collection as this, with its tempting additional selection of transcriptions by Saint-Saëns, Reger, Kynaston,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2011

Canciones españolas - Carreras

When this record first emerged exactly 12 years ago as part of Brendel's projected album covering Schubert's last six years,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1985

Bernstein Symphonies No. 1, 'Jeremiah'; No. 2 'The Ageof Anxiety'

Good on Chandos for tapping so quickly into the huge potential of Leonard Slatkin’s budding relationship with the BBC Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Bach JC Symphonies

Whether JC Bach’s cosmopolitan 18th­century musical language (heard to greatest effect while he was resident in socialite London between 1762­82)...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Bach Christmas Oratorio

Too late for a review in time for Christmas! Never mind, there are more successful performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989

Smetana (The) Bartered Bride

Nicely timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Sir Peter Moore’s ‘Opera in English’ series comes this outstanding new...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2005

Telemann Vocal Works

If, as I think it was H. G. Wells had it, God is some kind of benevolent old gentleman with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1994

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