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Nielsen String Quartets, Vol 1
Tim Frederiksen | Young Danish Quartet
I’m not sure what the members of the Danish Quartet, who recorded the Nielsen quartets more than effectively in 1992...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2007
Barbirolli & the New York Philharmonic 'live'
John Barbirolli | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
On the whole, these recordings tell, as did the Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Wagner recordings before them, of a very special...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1999
(The) Red Shoes - Music for Powell and Pressburger Films
British cinema has yet to surpass the visionary genius of that great series of films produced and directed by Michael...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Britten Albert Herring
Having shown us the grim and nasty side of Aldeburgh life at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Peter...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
Mozart Piano Concertos
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate | Mitsuko Uchida
Very soon after the start of the B flat major Concerto here, you discover that this is going to be...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1991
Sheppard Sacred Choral Works
Peter Phillips | Tallis Scholars
The Tallis Scholars' latest release focuses on the music of John Sheppard, a lesser known and, as Peter Phillips points...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/1990
Vivaldi/Chédeville Il Pastor Fido
Brigitte Engelhard | Irena Grafenauer | Jörg Baumann | Klaus Stoll
Scholars and discerning performers have long questioned the authenticity of Il pastor fido, published in Paris in 1737, as Vivaldi's...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992
English Folksongs and Lute Songs
Andreas Martin | Andreas Scholl
‘Interval’ is not a word that, as far as I can recall, has ever been inserted into a song recital...
Reviewed in issue 9/1996
Something Old - (The) Evolution of the Brass Quintet
From the gravitas of Adam Woolf’s sensitively voiced arrangements in his Renaissance Suite to the seminal brass-quintet composer Victor Ewald,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2006
Schumann Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
These are two of Fischer-Dieskau's very last recitals, given in the month of his sixty-seventh birthday, shortly before...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1995
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