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Sor Complete Guitar Duets, Volume 2

By the time Sor wrote his first guitar duet he was 50 years old and had made Paris his final...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1997

Elegy

Diana Yukawa is a 15-year-old Anglo-Japanese violinist who plays charmingly and has been well trained (by Rodney Friend). Her father...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Delius Orchestral & Vocal Works

It was Christopher Palmer who produced ''The Fenby Legacy'' (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP9008/9, 10/81), a recording of works with which Eric Fenby...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Pärt Chamber Works

Fratres comes bounding in on a breathless, arpeggiated violin crescendo that stops suddenly in mid-air, revealing—in its immediate aftermath, and...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Dvorák Chamber Works, Vol.11

These two works are not paired on any currently available record of Dvorak's chamber music, and they go well together....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1994

Schubert Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

Schubert's symphonic slow movements seem on the whole to draw more from Muti than do Beethoven's, but then one would...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1989

Bellini Norma

At Parma in 2001 they had a creditable Norma; at Orange, on a wind-swept, genius-driven night in 1974, they had...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (original version)

Several reviewers, comparing LPs with the Compact Disc, have spoken of the effect of lifting a veil. Making for the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1984

Holst Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Though our modern age continues to extol The Planets as most archetypal of its composer, this recording of music written...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 2/2009

Cage Chamber Works

What a splendid idea to make a feature of Cage's percussion music from 1939-43! At this time he was a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1992

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