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Mozart Symphonies 36 & 40

Duplications of these masterpieces have been arriving so fast that it is a relief when newcomers find so clear a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1990

The Bach Family-Organ Works

Marie-Claire Alain has contributed so generously to the discography of organ music that it would be invidious to point to...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/1997

Britten Curlew River

Here's another historic Britten recording successfully transferred to CD, hopefully the two subsequent church parables will follow in due course....

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Incomparable Rudolf Serkin

DG’s two-disc tribute is rightly called ‘The Incomparable Rudolf Serkin’. ‘A passionate puritan’ (as Jeremy Siepmann tells us in his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003

Sixteenth Century Lute Settings of Josquin des Prez

During the 15th century the lute emerged as a solo instrument in its own right and had therefore to assemble...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2000

Telemann La Changeante

A friend who arrived while I was playing through this set, and whose knowledge of music was limited, said: ''That...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1992

Dufay and the Court of Savoy

Se la face ay pale remains Dufay’s most approachable Mass – very much a tune with accompaniment, one that is...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2009

Moszkowski Piano Works, Vol. 2

Seta Tanyel’s first Moszkowski recital (10/95) received a warm response from BM, whose wish for more is fulfilled here. While...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1996

Janácek & Stravinsky: Piano Works

Marios Papadopoulos plays Janacek's sonata with a gentle, romanticizing melancholy that is nature can well encompass, even if such an...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985

R. Strauss Feuersnot

A valuable recording, the only other version on the Gramophone Database being from 1958, and (though under Kempe) the singers...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

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