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Shostakovich String Quartets, Volume 3

Among the various ensembles currently building towards complete Shostakovich quartet cycles‚ the Sorrels have much to offer that is distinctive...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2001

Albinoni Oboe Concertos from Op. 8

How times change! Reviewing the original LP issue of this recording almost ten years ago, NA understandably regretted the omission...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1989

Dupré Complete Organ Works, Volume 10

Thinking about 20th-century French music after Debussy and Ravel, the names of Messiaen and the members of Les Six would...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Schubert Heliopolis

The Schubert shelves (if those of our readers are anything like mine) bend and groan and are full to overflowing,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2010

Mendelssohn Symphonies, etc

Toscanini was clearly very much in tune with Mendelssohn's music, but as in the case of other composers he tended...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Arnold Complete Symphonies

The merits of the enterprising Naxos set are considerable. Drawing some consistently bright­eyed‚ agreeably polished playing from his useful Dublin...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Tchaikovsky/Shostakovich/Schnittke String Quartets

Although this and programmes like it are extremely useful for introducing newcomers to the genre of chamber music, I can’t...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

Pelleas is one of those operas fortunate enough to 'record well'—certainly there has rarely been a time when at least...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1992

Stravinsky Symphonies

Ashkenazy's Symphony in C is eager and well sprung, the busy counterpoint alive and kicking, the underlying moto perpetuo rhythms...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1993

Revueltas (La) Noche de los Mayas; Stravinsky (The) Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring should continue to shock, but the elements of surprise in this live recording come from unexpected...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 9/2010

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