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Mazzocchi Sacrae Concertationes

Domenico Mazzocchi was the elder of two composing brothers active in Rome in the first half of the seventeenth century....

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Faure & Franck Chamber Works

Greatly though I enjoyed the Franck (with one reservation—see below) it's the Medici's revelatory performance of the Faure Quartet that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Kander Cabaret - original 1966 Broadway cast

Goddard Lieberson, the producer of all these Masterworks recordings, was thought sometimes to be rather parsimonious when it came to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

This is another transfer from EMI to Chandos of a Peter Moores-supported recording of opera in English. I gave it...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart (The) Early Sonatas, K10 - K15

In London with time on his hands in autumn 1764, the eight-year-old Mozart, doubtless with a little help from father...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2006

Sibelius/Sinding Violin Works

I thought this ''pretty dazzling'' on its first appearance and its transfer to Compact Disc brings the usual advantages of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1985

Schubert String Quartet No 15, D887

Paul Robertson, in his extended and extremely interesting notes, suggests that such a monumental, complex work as Schubert’s last string...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2002

Ernst Violin and Piano Works Vol 1

“The greatest violinist I ever heard.” That was the verdict of Joseph Joachim. Dismayingly overlooked, like so many other once-celebrated...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2011

Peter Dawson Favourites

A collector friend (78rpm of course) used to have a recurrent nightmare in which a pile of about fifty enticing...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Schütz Schwanengesang

Philippe Herreweghe’s return to the bosom of the 17th century is as welcome as his recent claims for an “authentic”...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2007

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