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Bartók String Quartets

The more one studies these works, the more miraculous they seem; not just as structures and designs, but as personal...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

C.P.E. Bach Sonatas for Connoisseurs & Amateurs

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's six collections of sonatas, fantasias and rondos fur Kenner und Liebhaber (''for Connoisseurs and Amateurs'') were...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993

Hvorostovsky sings Classical Arias

Taking time out from his nights at the opera in Eugene Onegin and Don Carlo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is here found...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

This bizarre arrangement, desperately hurling in ukulele-like strummings, endless tremolandos, violently percussive attacks and prodigies of complex fingering in its...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1984

Gabrieli and St Mark's Venetian Brass Music

The instrumental music of the Venetian school, and principally the canzonas and sonatas of Giovanni Gabrieli, have long been a...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/1990

Rossini (Il) viaggio a Reims

Even Viaggio’s most vocal admirers would admit that it’s hardly Rossini’s most stageworthy opera. He expressed his own opinion by...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 5/2005

Fauré Requiem

There may be a more profoundly beautiful recording of Fauré’s Requiem out there, but if so, I’ve not heard it....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/2009

Cantos y Danzas - Manuel Barrueco

“The music on this CD occupies a special place in my heart”, writes Manuel Barrueco, a Cuban by birth, but...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1998

Verdi La Traviata

This represents all that is most questionable in the studio recording of opera today—the gathering together of a starry cast...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1993

Brahms Orchestral Works

Toscanini's approach to the symphony is a little less highly-strung here than in his better-known 1951 version ((CD) GD60257, 5/90),...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

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