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Coulais Stabat Mater
Bruno Coulais said in 2001 that he wanted to concentrate less on film music and pursue his contemporary classical career....
Reviewed by aspicer in issue: 7/2006
Hindemith Cello Concertos
Queensland Symphony Orchestra (Brisbane) | Werner Andreas Albert
Hindemith’s E flat major Concerto (1915-6) is a well-made and substantial student piece (the longest of his three cello concertos,...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
Haydn: Symphonies
Founded in 1956, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra was admired by Shostakovich, who wrote that the orchestra ''never failed to amaze...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990
Smetana Má Vlast
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Nikolaus Harnoncourt
‘My father was practically Czech,’ says Nikolaus Harnoncourt after enquiring whether there are any Czech musicians in the orchestra. There...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2012
Mozart Wind Serenades
Champs-Élysées Orchestra Harmonie | Philippe Herreweghe
This latest version of the so-called Gran Partita (the title isn’t Mozart’s) enters a very competitive field. These French players...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1997
Handel (Il) Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Handel’s first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (or “Trionfo”, as Virgin lazily call it on the spine)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2007
Mozart (La) clemenza di Tito
Hot on the heels of Mackerras matching the exemplary period-instrument versions by Gardiner and Hogwood, and René Jacobs’s deliberately alternative...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2006
Elgar Caractacus, etc
Composed for the 1898 Leeds Festival, Elgar's large-scale cantata Caractacus depicts that ancient British king's defiant last stand against the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1993
Primrose plays Handel, Mozart and Beethoven
The viola's baritonal tenor has always faced overwhelming solo competition from the violin's soprano and the cello's bass-baritone, a situation...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Vladimir Horowitz plays Favourite Chopin, Vol.2
Not for the first time on disc, I enjoyed Horowitz in the studio here more than on the concert platform,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989
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