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Sullivan HMS Pinafore

Based on last July’s Royal Festival Hall production – with one cast change – this new HMS Pinafore’s most distinctive...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2000

Kreisler Violin Works

It’s wonderful how Kreisler’s short pieces for violin and piano continue to hold a fascination for violinists and listeners. Other...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2004

Conyngham Orchestral Works

Here are two large-scale works from either end of the 1980s by the Australian composer Barry Conyngham (b. 1944), performed...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1994

Modes of the Modes: Masses by Ockeghem

This second CD from Peter Urquhart’s American ensemble brings some more of Ockeghem’s Masses to the catalogue – The Clerks’...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997

Hans Hermann Nissen (1893-1980)

An elementary remark, but the immediate reaction to the first sound of the voice is simply ''This man is a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

The cleanest and often also the gentlest of violin-playing; Perlman, no stranger to large-scale concertos, adapts very readily to a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Hummel Septets

Even Berlioz, no great admirer of Hummel, conceded that he wrote some good septets and played the piano well; and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 23

The second of the series of Mozart concerto recordings Mitsuko Uchida is making with the English Chamber Orchestra and Jeffrey...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 8/1987

Paganini Violin Concerto No. 4

Paganini closely guarded the music of his concertos (not wanting them to fall into the hands of rivals) and the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1997

Dusapin - (7) Solos for Orchestra

These seven separate works, composed between 1992 and 2009, sound as if they are hypnotised by the paradox of their...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2010

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