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Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4

I can’t recall hearing a more honest or securely focused account of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto in a long while, though...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2005

Puccini La bohème

Both of these recordings are special cases, both are in a sense hors concours when it comes to comparing them...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1991

Great Cathedral Anthems, Vol. 1

From a composer's point of view the Anglican Eucharist is likely to have a distinct advantage over the Roman Catholic...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

S.Paulus Songs

Stephen Paulus is a middle-of-the-road composer with a reputation for opera—three have been commissioned by the Opera Theatre of St...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/1992

Matousek Chamber Music

Seven concise pieces written in the last three decades, chosen for this disc by the now 56-year-old Czech composer, all...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1999

MacDowell Sonata Eroica; First Modern Suite

Edward MacDowell’s naivety and generosity of spirit may strike an alien note in our more cynical and brittle age, yet...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2005

Albinoni Cleomene

Albinoni's serenata Cleomene, or Climene as it appears here, was first performed in Venice in 1718 during the carnival season....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1990

Hymnodia Sacra

As Árni Heimar Ingólfsson admits frankly in his booklet-note, “musical life in 18th-century Iceland did not amount to much compared...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 3/2011

Offenbach: Barbe-bleue

Offenbach's retelling of the Bluebeard legend was one of the big successes of that sequence of masterpieces that he created...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/1985

Haydn Symphonies, Vol 24

In this Naxos Haydn series‚ following the symphony issues from Barry Wordsworth with Cappella Istropolitana and Nicholas Ward with the...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

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