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Mozart String Quintets

This three-disc set is not all that generous in length by today's standards, when we all tend to hope for...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1987

Horner Flight Plan

The score for this improbable thriller starring Jodie Foster is an unusually subdued affair. The booklet carries no plot synopsis,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

Complete New English Hymnal (The), Vol 9

With the Abbey this year celebrating the 900th anniversary of the monks’ arrival at Tewkesbury‚ it is a good time...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Nobel Prize Concert 2009

The annual Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm is held as a tribute to the year’s Nobel Laureates. This live recording...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011

Bortnyansky Sacred Concertos, Volume 3

Bortnyansky, author of six operas, a small quantity of chamber music and a vast amount of liturgical music, has been...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 1/2001

Beethoven Sonatas for Piano No's 21, 23 & 32

Ronald Smith’s Beet-hoven is straightforward to the point of matter-of-factness. Perhaps that is the very point he is trying to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: /2000

Purcell Complete Anthems & Services, Vol.4

The fourth stage in Robert King's Purcellian journey offers the usual contrasting scenery, with a familiar landmark cannily placed to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1993

Vivaldi Maestro d'Concerti

Here is a thoughtfully constructed programme of Vivaldi's concertos which makes effective use of contrasting textures and sonorities. Little of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1988

Bach Flute Sonatas

With Sofia Gubaidulina's imposing Symphony Stimmen-Verstummen among several of her major works awaiting its first recording, and with each of...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Stachowski Works for Cello & String Orchestra

Marek Stachowski (1936-2004) is a member of the generation of Polish composers overshadowed by (and indebted to) Lutosawksi and Penderecki....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2010

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