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Handel Water Music Suites Nos 1-3

Handel's Water Music is well served on CD. Apart from the authentic versions by The English Concert under Pinnock on...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Prokofiev Symphony No 7; Sinfonietta

Really one is beginning to run out of words of praise in dealing with this Prokofiev series from Chandos. His...

Reviewed in issue 4/1986

Beethoven Solo Piano Works, Vol 8

You wouldn’t think at first glance that these recordings of Beethoven’s last three sonatas have more than a few points...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2010

Kleven Lotusland

Felled by rheumatic fever just five days short of his 30th birthday, Trondheim-born Arvid Kleven (1899-1929) played flute from the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2010

Fireworks - Virtuoso Violin Works

Vadim Gluzman is a true virtuoso. His confident presence and brilliant, well schooled technique are allied to an especially deep,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2009

Musgrave (The) Fall of Narcissus

On ‘Pierrot Dreaming’ (6/02), Victoria Soames Samek gathered together an enticing selection of Thea Musgrave’s chamber music with clarinet, and...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2003

Borodin and Tchaikovsky: String Quartets

These two quartets have often been coupled on record, and indeed they make a good complement to each other. The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990

Harmonic Labyrinth

This recital disc will come as a puzzle to collectors. Prompted by a concert Rohan de Saram and Preethi de...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2011

Duos for Violin and Cello

Frank Peter Zimmermann and Heinrich Schiff have been a musical item for more than two decades and the fruits of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2006

Verdi (Un) ballo in maschera

Davis’s measured conducting is more favourable to the tinta of Verdi’s middle-period masterpiece than to its histrionic necessities: this is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

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