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The Symphony in Europe

This recording was one of the surprisingly few manifestations of record company interest in celebrating 1985 as ''European Music Year''....

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Haydn Symphonies 101 & 104

There is nothing extraordinary about these performances of five of Haydn's ''London'' Symphonies. They are as unexceptional and as unspectacular...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1989

Bartók/Prokofiev Violin Sonatas

Playing of breathtaking artistry, as one might expect from this stellar partnership, recorded live at the 1972 Salzburg Festival. There...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1998

Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3

Erich Gruenberg and David Wilde are experienced artists who make a good team, so we can welcome this third disc...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1993

Blow/Draghi Odes for St Cecilia's Day

Of these two contemporaries of Purcell, it is undoubtedly Giovanni Battista Draghi who needs the more introduction. An Italian who...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1996

Fauré Chamber Works, Vol.1

Not even in France could there ever have been a more comprehensive survey of Faure's chamber music than this, which...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989

Rossini Le Comte Ory

The last decent studio recording we had of this vintage, late-grown Rossinian opera-comique was in July 1957. The cover of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1989

Schoenberg Vocal and Instrumental Works

Pierrot lunaire remains perennially strange, its speech-song the perfect embodiment of modernist ambiguity. It is not just appropriate but inevitable...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1992

Brahms Symphony No 2

Neumann and the Philharmonia have the advantage of a very good recording which is well-balanced and strong on detail, yet...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Bridge Complete Music for Cello and Piano

Here’s another strong performance of Frank Bridge’s masterly Cello Sonata‚ its clear­sighted purposefulness and dedication in every way a match...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

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