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Martinu Comedy on the Bridge

Not for nothing is this Martinu's most successful opera. Vaclav Klicpera's amusing little plot—about a group of people caught on...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1985

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

This is, including a few oddballs, the 39th CD version of Vivaldi's Big Four (the LP count is even higher):...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1988

Brahms (The) String Quintets

Brahms followed Mozart’s lead in adding a second viola to the string quartet line-up for his two string quintets, rather...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2009

Mendelssohn Oedipus-Incidental Music

The year 1845 was a fairly busy one for Mendelssohn. Covent Garden had put on Sophocles's Antigone using the composer's...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Music at the Court of St Petersburg, Volume 1

Dominant in St Petersburg musical life in the first years of the nineteenth century was the haunting figure of John...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1997

Bach Hunt Cantata

These two CD reissues have been taken from a seven-volume LP series of Bach’s secular cantatas conducted by Helmuth Rilling...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1996

Vivaldi Concerti e Cantate

This thoughtfully and attractively devised programme by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano breaks up a sequence of five well contrasted...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1997

Hindemith; Moscheles; Rheinberger Horn Sonatas

Barry Tuckwell's career, as LSO principal horn for 13 years and as the first musician to earn a full-time living...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2006

Brahms: Violin Works

If anyone doubts that these three sonatas represent Brahms at his most blissfully lyrical, then this is an essential set...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1985

Beethoven String Trios

The Mozart Trio are more generous with repeats of first movement expositions than the Cummings Trio. But unlike their predecessors...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988

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