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Verdi Aida

You won't hear a more idiomatically sung performance of this oft-recorded (and successfully so) work in the catalogue. The voices...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

Penderecki St Luke Passion

The West German Radio Chorus, a powerful presence in this performance, were also involved in one of two recordings of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2000

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

Had Walter Legge persuaded EMI to allow Herbert von Karajan to set down some Shostakovich symphonies in the early 1960s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2009

Bach Keyboard Works

With this reissue the number of available recordings of The Art of Fugue reaches ten, of which only two are...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1990

McCartney Ecce Cor Meum

Paul McCartney’s latest pseudo-classical project, conceived during the illness of his first wife to a commission from Oxford’s Magdalen College,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2006

Pergolesi Marian Vespers

Pergolesi did not, as far as anyone knows, actually compose a ‘Marian Vespers’, but at the end of 1732 he...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2002

Bach Violin Sonatas

Playing Bach’s violin and obbligato keyboard sonatas with piano instead of harpsichord is almost unheard of these days, so by...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2009

Handel Secular Cantatas

The Handel revival of recent years has given only modest attention to the cantatas; this must be one of the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999

Kodály Háry János-Suite;Dances from Galánta etc

Robert Shaw in his Telarc recordings has repeatedly demonstrated what a fine orchestra the Atlanta Symphony is, and here Yoel...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1997

Hartmann/Szymanowski Violin Concertos

It was the invasion of Szymanowski's native Poland that prompted Karl Amadeus Hartmann—no Nazi sympathizer—to write his Concerto funebre for...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1990

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