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Mozart Wind Quintets & Quartet

Each of these three chamber works has the kind of quality that one expects from the mature Mozart, and although...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1992

Schumann Symphonies

A disappointment after Chailly's fine companion disc of the Spring and Fourth Symphonies (12/90). The ''capricious and obstinate'' struggles of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1993

Albert Piano Works

Here is a superb recital following Piers Lane’s earlier Hyperion release of d’Albert piano concertos (4/96) and, once again, provoking...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1998

Rachmaninov/Dvorák/Sibelius Cello Works

Hard on the heels of the performance of Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata by Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy on Decca comes...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1986

Handel Messiah

Over the past few decades Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have performed Messiah about 150 times. This new Coro recording...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2008

Heinz Holliger and Friends

Heinz Holliger has bestridden the musical world as the leading oboe player of the day as surely as did, in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Dvorák Orchestral Works

According to Discover International's booklet-notes, the Iranian conductor Alexander Rahbari has been chief of the Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Mahler Symphony No 7

Zdenek Mácal’s reading can come over as genial where darker emotions might seem de rigueur, but without any sense of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2009

Roman Drottningholm Music

This new release adds to the small but interesting and representative clutch of CDs of works by the ''Father of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1993

Bach Violin Concertos

First impressions suggest a high-energy, tightly accented approach, “period”-schooled while retaining an element of modern-instrument intensity, mostly in the slow...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2006

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