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Mozart Violin Sonatas

It is good to have chamber music on CD, particularly in performances so stylish and alive as these, but the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Martha Argerich’s first commercially released recordings of the Chopin concertos were for DG; No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1999

Dvorak String Quartets

Given that they’re so infrequently performed in concert, Dvorák’s string quartets have done rather well on the recording front. These...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2010

Schubert Missa Solemnis; Stabat Mater; Salve Regina

Schubert’s church music is heard less often than it deserves, surprisingly so given it contains some of his finest music....

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 1/1999

Spanish Legends

For many years now we’ve enjoyed a steady stream of recordings in which David Russell has raised mere aptness to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 5/2005

Translucence

Donna McKevitt once toured briefly with Katharine Blake’s Mediaeval Baebes, but also worked with Blake’s earlier group, Miranda Sex Garden,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 9/2004

Britten Vocal Works for Tenor

Here, so to speak, are the first gramophone obsequies for Sir Peter Pears, although presumably they were planned before the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Metcalf In Time of Daffodils

If a resistant strain of British pastoralism has to exist, better it cross-fertilises with expressive microtonal slides and gives a...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2007

Weigl String Quartets 1 & 5

These recordings were made last year after a series of concerts commemorating the 50th anniversary of Weigl’s death. The protagonists...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2000

Shostakovich Symphony No.8

The Teldec insert-note claims that Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony ''failed to keep its place in the repertoire of the West, because...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

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