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Douce Beaute: Airs de cour

This jaunty disc takes a novel approach to the air de cour – novel at least in terms of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1998

Schubert Violin Sonatas, Vol 2

This is Swensen and Kahane's second CD of music for violin and piano by Schubert. Volume 1 ( RD87823, 1/89)...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1989

John Amis - Amiscellany: Music Making With Old Friends

For those who enjoyed their weekly fix of the long-running My Music on steam radio, this disc will serve as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2008

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios, Vol 1

Here’s a recording that immediately, from the first, impetuous bars of Op 70 No 1, feels just right. In this...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2003

R. Strauss Tone Poems

Barenboim takes over shortly as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor and if this disc was intended as a foretaste...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

Bruckner Symphony No.7

Robert Simpson compared the Seventh to a smile in music, and at first sight the members of the Cleveland Orchestra...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 3/2010

Kim & Starer Violin Concertos

It is pretty rare for a soloist as bankable at the international box-office as Itzhak Perlman even to play a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1985

18th Century Russian Music, Vol.1

Three CDs, available separately from Le Chant du Monde, offer a spectrum of Russian eighteenth-century music. The repertoire includes instrumental...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1988

Jolivet; Milhaud; Shostakovich Works for Flute

The flautist Emmanuel Pahud has here devised a delightful disc exploiting the distinctive combination of flute and clarinet, something evidently...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2005

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

As your Ring reviewer of long standing, you may think I tire of listening to this great masterpiece – but,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

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