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Review of Haydn Symphonies

Haydn Symphonies

Without provoking superlatives, these latest offerings in Naxos's evolving Haydn cycle represent fair value at the price. The first disc...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1995

Review of Mozart Piano Works

Mozart Piano Works

The choice of pieces, the taste and intelligence of the playing and the quality of sound give this Mozart recital...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/1984

Review of Shostakovich Symphony No 8

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

Yoel Levi's Shostakovich cycle has been well received in these pages and this latest instalment has many fine qualities. Why...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Review of C.P.E.Bach Keyboard Concertos

C.P.E.Bach Keyboard Concertos

A weakness in the otherwise representative C. P. E. Bach Edition from Capriccio was the omission of any of Emanuel...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1990

Review of Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

It has taken three years for this digitally-mastered three-LP set to find its way on to CD (two discs neatly...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Review of Sephardic Romances

Sephardic Romances

Many singers have become fascinated with the Sephardic song repertory. Like so much material gathered by folk-song specialists over the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1986

Review of The English Anthem, Vol. 2

The English Anthem, Vol. 2

St Paul's choir's ''English Anthem'' Vol. 1 ((CD) CDA66374, 9/90) contained several of the best-known: Blessed be the God and...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Review of Fauré (The) Complete Songs, Vol 2

Fauré (The) Complete Songs, Vol 2

Entitled ‘Un paysage choisi’, Volume 2 of Hyperion’s superb Fauré song series takes its theme from Clair de lune and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2005

Review of Mozart Early String Quartets

Mozart Early String Quartets

On the previous Casals Quartet disc we heard highly convincing performances of Debussy and Zemlinsky (7/05); for the very different...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2006

Review of Mozart Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro'

Mozart Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro'

For a Salzburg Figaro of prime vintage I would probably look to the previous decade of the 1950s, but this...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2010


 

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