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J.C. Bach Harpsichord Sonatas

The keyboard sonatas of Johann Christian Bach were published, like most sonatas of the time, as ''for the Harpsichord or...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Dvorak String Quartets Op.106 & 96 'American'

The first point to make about this highly enjoyable new coupling concerns the range of dynamics on offer, principally in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2010

The Lion of Scotland - Music by John Clerk of Penicuik

But for an informative and amusing article by John Purser, Scottish composer John Clerk is likely to mean little to...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/1998

Brahms Symphony No. 2; Haydn Variations

When ASV decided to issue Janowski's performances on their full-price label they invited comparison between the RLPO and at least...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

Vivaldi: Chamber Works

Here is an attractive proposition for lovers of Vivaldi's music—seven works for chamber ensemble, four of which have made only...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1987

Complete George Crumb Edition Volume 6

This is the sixth volume of Bridge’s Complete Crumb Edition, with a mixed group of works written between 1964 and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2003

Romantic Trios for Soprano, Horn and Piano

Warm, comfortable and evocative (of hunts and purple glens, alpine innocence and golden sunsets), the horn goes well with voice...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Beethoven/Brahms Cello Sonatas

Sensitive phrasing was the very hub of Pablo Casals's art, and these CDs are more revealing than many of how...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suites

The coupling is an immensely attractive one, the price extremely tempting, but there are undoubted problems. Capable though he is,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994

Cavalli Giasone

To mount a production of a Cavalli opera is still no mean feat, even though since the pioneering work of...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1989

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