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Haydn Symphonies Nos 91 & 92

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra are the fine period-performance band that gave us such an exuberant account recently on Harmonia Mundi...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2005

Henze Der junge Lord

The 'young Lord' is an ape, disguised as an English aristocrat and introduced into a smug early-nineteenth-century German community to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1994

Haydn Complete Keyboard Music, Vol 11 - (The) Seven Last Words

The Seven Last Words were not arranged for piano by Haydn but were fully approved by him. John McCabe –...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2004

Beamish; Beethoven String Quartets

Sally Beamish explains that Beethoven’s Op 18 No 4 gave her, at 14, her first experience of quartet playing. So...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2006

Sibelius Orchestral Works

The Second Symphony has always been well served on record and so it is here by the doyen of Finnish...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1988

Bach/Mozart Concertos

This is Richter’s first recording of the grandest of Mozart’s piano concertos and is therefore of special interest. All the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996

Brodsky Unlimited - Encores

The notion of the encore sits somewhat uneasily with the traditional string quartet repertoire; but judiciously handled it may offer...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

Here is further evidence that Bruckner was a real composer long before he discovered Wagner. The superb Requiem of 1849...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Dvorák Orchestral Works

Sir Colin Davis's magnificent Amsterdam Dvorak Seventh remains one of the most compellingly taut available: gloriously played and paced to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1993

Monteverdi Vespers

Of all the rediscoveries of 'ancient music' this century, the vesper settings by Monteverdi have probably been most rapidly assimilated...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 2/1990

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