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Schubert Songs without Words

The paradox here is that the main item – or, rather, the longest work on the disc and the only...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Mozart Church Sonatas

Mozart wrote 17 Epistle Sonatas, intended for performance between the Epistle and the Gospel during Mass at Salzburg Cathedral. Most...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Rasmussen/Sorensen String Quartets

The Arditti Quartet's enterprising and absorbing voyage through the highways and byways of contemporary string quartet music has now taken...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1992

Spanish Works for String Orchestra

You have to hand it to Gerard Claret for his enterprise in getting away from the all too familiar Spanish...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1998

Arnold David Copperfield; The Roots of Heaven

Filmed in Chad under the most inhospitable conditions imaginable, John Huston’s big-screen adaptation of The Roots of Heaven (a tale...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Bach Concertos after Vivaldi

It is a little curious that these six works have been so neglected by record companies over the past 25...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1988

Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 3

Handel's six Concerti grossi, Op. 3, were published by Walsh in London in i734. The first edition, however, included as...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1989

Stravinsky Symphony in E flat & Firebird Suite

Stravinsky’s youthful debts to Tchaikovsky ring out loud and clear in the Largo third movement of this spacious and uncharacteristically...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Tippett A Child of our time

These three recordings of Tippett's early oratorio present the first-time buyer with a problem. The work itself is problematic enough,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987

Myaskovsky; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

I’ve always thought of Vadim Repin as among the most gifted of younger Russian-born violinists, even on the evidence of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2003

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