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Handel Chamber Works, Vol.5
This pair of LPs brings to an end the CRD series of the complete chamber music of Handel, recorded by...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1986
Rore Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Huelgas-Ensemble | Paul van Nevel
The Huelgas Ensemble have recorded a masterly recital of works by Cipriano de Rore, subtitled ‘Music, Mirror of the text’....
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/2003
Bach Goldberg Variations
Vieru’s Goldberg Variations are rather heavy going. The problem is partly the bass orientation of the recording (or of the...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1999
Beethoven Chamber Works
Beethoven's Septet is a charming work whose importance lies not only in its consolidation of its composer's style before its...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Gál Work for & with Mandolin
Despite a long and distinguished heritage in Central and Eastern Europe, the mandolin has never really caught on further west....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2004
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Cyprien Katsaris | Eliahu Inbal | Philharmonia Orchestra
Brahms's Second is very much a symphonic concerto which can be dominated in performance either by the conductor or the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1990
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire; Pelleas & Melisande
Anja Silja | Philharmonia Orchestra | Robert Craft | Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
There is certainly room in the catalogue for a new version of Pelleas und Melisande – ideally for one that...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2000
Solti conducts Beethoven and Wagner
As early as his 1959 Vienna Philharmonic recording, Solti treated Beethoven’s Eroica as a broad-based epic, the first movement measured...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2008
Ziehrer Orchestral Works Vol 3
Christian Pollack | Razumovsky Sinfonia
Carl Michael Ziehrer (18431922) gained distinction as successor to the Strausses as the very last holder of the official Habsburg...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
French Vocal Music
Brussels National Opera Orchestra | John Pritchard | Kiri Te Kanawa
Each song or movement here starts so promisingly that it is sad to have to report an over all disappointment....
Reviewed in issue 1/1985
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