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Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail

The famously baton-less Ferenc Fricsay was always an invigorating Mozart conductor, favouring slimmed-down forces, urgent (yet never hectic) tempi and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2009

Bach Violin Sonatas

The pellucid simplicity of Bruno Canino's piano-playing is the perfect partner for the fine silver of Viktoria Mullova's violin playing....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1993

Leoncavallo I Pagliacci; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

Reviewing the Pagliacci in 1961, Philip Hope-Wallace noted that the opera was, as he put it, ''divorced from its terrible...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Zemlinsky Symphony 2; Psalm 23

This is the second recording of Zemlinsky's so-called Second Symphony (in fact his Third, though only two movements of the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 6, nos. 9-12

This release of Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 9-12 completes the CD issue transferred from the original three LP...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1985

Beethoven Late Piano Works

Earlier recordings by Jean-Francois Heisser have been largely given over to the music of late 19th- and early 20th-century composers:...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2000

Mozart Piano Sonatas, K281, K282, K396 & K576

Writing in 1984, Brendel described his work as a recreator as ‘being like a restorer of paintings who clears away...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2005

Holmboe Works For Violin & Piano

Holmboe’s reputation rests on his masterly series of symphonies, string quartets and concertos. Few realise that he was a practical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2010

20th Century American Works for Winds

American music, Icelandic instrumentalists British venue. It may seem an unlikely combination, but the results are by no means implausible...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - excerpts

Aided by some handsome engineering (Andrew Keener's first-rate Abbey Road production boasts an especially opulent bass response), Claus Peter Flor's...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1993

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