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Review of Beethoven Violin Concerto

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tend to fall into one of two interpretative camps, the reverential, or “Olympian”, and the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2008

Review of Milhaud Jazz Works

Milhaud Jazz Works

For his account of La creation du monde Ian Hobson chooses the original chamber version of the score. It has...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1988

Review of Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

''What seraphic music. It must be Bruckner'', remarked a friend who entered the room as I was playing this recording....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Review of Brahms; Dvorak Chamber Works

Brahms; Dvorak Chamber Works

An excellently-chosen coupling this, not only as a reminder of the warm regard, both musical and personal, shared by Brahms...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/2003

Review of Equinox

Equinox

I first made the acquaintance of Abigail James’s playing on Delphian’s superb disc of Edward McGuire’s chamber music (A/06), and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2007

Review of Salzburg Serenades

Salzburg Serenades

As their clarinettist Dieter Klocker describes in his notes, there was so much casual music-making in and around Salzburg in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Review of Bach Das wohltemperirte Klavier

Bach Das wohltemperirte Klavier

My enthusiasm for the original issue of Gould's performance of Book I was considerable but by the time Book 2...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1989

Review of Verdi Falstaff

Verdi Falstaff

A huge triumph for Glyndebourne, this. But before going on to particularise, perhaps we should tip some of our bouquets...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

Review of Bach Orchestral Suites

Bach Orchestral Suites

This new recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites has many engaging qualities against which I must set one or two...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1992

Review of Bartók/Dohnányi Works for Piano and Orchestra

Bartók/Dohnányi Works for Piano and Orchestra

One might call this delightful collection “Richard Strauss in Hungary”, so obvious – and nourishing – is the German master’s...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996


 

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