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Handel Messiah

From the 1940s until the early 1960s one of the greatest of regular British musical events (every bit as important...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1996

Bernstein Symphony No 1; Concerto for Orchestra, 'Jubilee Games'

In life, Leonard Bernstein ran into plenty of criticism for programming his own concert music. Now he’s gone it seems...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2004

Boccherini String Quintets, Vol 1

I started out here expecting to watch paint dry but ended up transfixed by a wealth of musical colours. All...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Bruckner Symphony No 3; Wagner Tannhäuser - excerpts

Barbirolli was something of a dark horse where Bruckner was concerned; five of the nine symphonies were in his repertoire...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2005

Fête à la française

The title of this CD is well chosen. The Dictionnaire Larousse defines the phrase faire la fete as giving oneself...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1989

Haydn Symphonies

Any full-price disc running to a miserly 49 minutes has to offer a pretty special musical experience. And while Previn's...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1993

R. Strauss Don Quixote; Death & Transfiguration

My own preference among Karajan's three Berlin Philharmonic recordings of Don Quixore is for the EMI version with Rostropovich, which...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Mendelssohn Paulus (St Paul)

The 12th and final volume of Frieder Bernius’s grandly conceived and worthily executed Mendelssohn Edition was the Elijah reviewed last...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2008

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique & Tristia

There is something to be said for a sharply analytical version of the Symphonie fantastique, when this is not just...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997

Vivaldi Dixit Dominus

This contains two of Vivaldi’s three known settings of the psalm Dixit Dominus, including one recently rediscovered in Dresden that...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2009

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