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Haydn; Monn Concertos for Cello and Orchestra
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Jean-Guihen Queyras | Petra Müllejans
Whining violins and a tight treble make for a raw sound. Moreover, the miking has done Jean-Guihen Queyras no favours...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2004
Mozart Symphonies
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
Crisp, direct, polished performances that convey necessary weight in the Jupiter: Marriner's coupling makes the safest of recommendations, and the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1986
Schubert/Schumann Symphonies
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
If Harnoncourt's Schubert is a nervous athlete hurrying among ghostly forerunners of a darker age, Wand's is a healthy bearer...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Schütz Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Louis Devos | Musica Polyphonica
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ was composed relatively early in Schutz’s long and prolific career. Of his published works, only...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/1996
Igor Markevitch
Igor Markevitch | Philharmonia Orchestra
Though not one of these seven items – drawn from five different LPs – was recorded in stereo, the sound...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1996
The Kestrel Paced Round the Sun
Elizabeth Burley | Sarah Brooke
A handsome and diverse survey of British flute music composed during the last 60 years. Sarah Brooke's performances are uniformly...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000
Bax Symphony No 6; Festival Overture
Bryden Thomson | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bax's Sixth Symphony is a difficult piece to bring off; its mood is ambiguous and its form (finale and scherzo...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1988
Concerto Köln - (The) Mozart Album
Concerto Köln | Cordula Breuer | Lorenzo Alpert
This seems a somewhat arbitrary selection of works, but it makes pleasant listening in performances that have style and considerable...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2003
Schütz St. Matthew Passion
Hilliard Ensemble | Paul Hillier
The 55-minute unbroken span of music that makes up Heinrich Schutz's St Matthew Passion lends itself ideally to CD, and...
Reviewed in issue 2/1989
Schubert Piano Sonatas
To one degree or another all these performances, part of a continuing Schubert cycle by Planès, are neat and musicianly,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003
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