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Mozart (The) Complete Sonatas and Variations
Bart van Oort | Ronald Brautigam | Ursula Dütschler
What constitutes ‘complete’ usually differs from one budget Mozart piano music box set to the next, as these two boxes...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2006
Brahms/R. Strauss Violin Sonatas
Rosen's strong-toned, firmly underpinned, essentially masculine readings are in a world apart from the self-indulgently elasticated Chopin often heard from...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1991
Japanese Orchestral Favourites
Ryusuke Numajiri | Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Western listeners who are aware of Japanese music mainly through the subtle calligraphies of Toru Takemitsu will be intrigued by...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Ravel: Orchestral Works
London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas
One wonders whether there will ever be a falling-off in the apparently insatiable desire of conductors and the record companies...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1989
Haydn Symphonies
(Nicolaus) Esterházy Sinfonia | Béla Drahos | Nicholas Ward | Northern Chamber Orchestra
With 30-odd Haydn symphonies already in their catalogue, mainly from the prolific Capella Istropolitana, Naxos have now come clean and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1994
C.P.E. Bach: Chamber Works
Purcell Quartet | Richard Boothby | Robert Woolley
C. P. E. Bach has had a first-class innings in his anniversary year. This new recording from Hyperion is particularly...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1989
Wolf Goethe Lieder
Geraldine McGreevy | Graham Johnson
The names of Goethe and Wolf‚ somewhat daunting to English ears even separately‚ become positively formidable in combination. Yet remove...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
(The) Sublime Voice of Carlo Bergonzi
'Carlo Bergonzi is known as the tenor's tenor' apparently. He was also very much the critic's tenor and, as far...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2000
McCabe Arthur Pendragon; Piano Concerto No 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Christopher Austin | John McCabe
Dutton’s third John McCabe programme is again built around a piano concerto (10/03, 2/04), in this instance the First (1966)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2007
A. Scarlatti Maddalena
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi | Gloria Banditelli | Rossana Bertini | Silvia Piccollo
Alessandro Scarlatti was only 24 and had just begun his enormously successful operatic career when he set a libretto by...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1994
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