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Haydn String Quartets, Op 64 Nos 4-6
Those familiar with The Lindsays’ recent Haydn recordings will need little encouragement to sample this set. Haydn demands close attention...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Bach Organ Works, Vol. 8
Volume 8 of this comprehensive Bach cycle finds Kevin Bowyer in exceptionally boisterous mood. There is a decidedly cheeky account...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1997
Ponchielli (La) Gioconda
The title-role in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda was a favourite with Zinka Milanov throughout her career, and this 1960 broadcast from...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2007
New Year's Concert in Vienna
Carlos Kleiber | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
I have seen many Vienna New Year Concerts on television over the past 40 years‚ and I have heard recordings...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2001
Romancing Rebellion - 1798 and the Songs of Thomas Moore
(The) Irish Piano Trio | Dearbhla Collins | Kathleen Tynan
In June 1798 the town of Wexford declared itself a republic, and on May 30th, 1998, the rebellion of that...
Reviewed in issue 8/1999
MacMillan The Berserking
James MacMillan | Markus Stenz | Peter Donohoe | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Today’s New Music scene is said to be pluralistic: everything is permitted; style is no longer a moral issue. But...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1996
Beethoven/Weber Chamber Works
Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble
Beethoven's Septet has been played and recorded in various ways—as an eighteenth-century serenade, as an early nineteenth-century symphony writ small,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994
Lutoslawski Chamber Works
Maciej Paderewski | Marian Wasiolka | Tadeusz Gadzina | Wilanów Quartet
When the Lutoslawski String Quartet last came my way I commented rather tetchily on its ''uncharacteristically diffuse and protracted meanderings''....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991
Mozart Mass in C minor K427
This is a bad year for bringing out new Mozart records: far too much competition around. But even supposing the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1991
Purcell Dido and Aeneas
Trevor Pinnock's Dido is a more languid affair than those listed above. Less over-dotting, fewer extremes of tempo, no funny...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1989
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