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Bach Complete English Suites

Murray Perahia’s English Suites (his first Bach recordings) originally appeared as full-price individual releases, beginning with Nos 1, 3 and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2008

Dvorák Symphony No 9; Cello Concerto

Judged purely on the evidence of this CD, you'd never guess that these two performances involve the same orchestra and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000

Donizetti Alahor in Granata

Two essays introduce the recording, one called ‘Rediscovering a masterpiece’, the other much the same but emphasizing the surprise of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Berlioz Symphonie Fanastique; Schubert Symphony No. 5

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique was always something of a Concertgebouw speciality in those faraway days when the work still had the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2000

50 Years of the Holland Festival

Readers who recall broadcasting in the late-1940s and early-1950s will have reason to thank the Holland Festival for many memorable...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1997

Zelenka Orchestral Works

The music of Zelenka is worth the occasional visit. It is easy when reading about his life – which ended...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2006

de Visée Pieces de Théorbe

The music of Robert de Visée (c1650-c1732) – musician at the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV, where he...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 1/2009

Janácek Glagolitic Mass; Sinfonietta

First, let me challenge a common chauvinistic preconception—that Janacek cannot 'sound' properly outside Czechoslovakia. Rawness, airiness, clarity and various other...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Massenet Werther

EMI have done Werther proud over the years. The first complete recording (1931), conducted by Elie Cohen, with Georges Thill...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2003

Cage Dream

In a creative life that was defined by public bust-ups with convention, the 1958 New York Town Hall performance of...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2009

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