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Beethoven String Quartets, Opp 130 & 133

The Petersen Quartet’s account of Op. 131, coupled with Op. 18 No. 1 (Capriccio, 3/95) made a strong impression last...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1996

Clementi Piano Sonatas

In his recent release of Clementi piano sonatas, Peter Katin has made a convincing case for playing this music on...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Heigh Ho! Mozart

After Ponchielli chasing hippos, Dukas pursuing a dare-devil apprentice, Mussorgsky fraternizing with a bunch of demons and Bach thundering down...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Gundula Janowitz - A Portrait

Despite the title, there is no portrait of Janowitz on the front of this set. Instead, two angels rise aloft,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Heavenly Voices

The ‘heavenly voices’ of the title are those of the boy-choristers of King’s College, Cambridge, and they answer the description...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2004

Myung-Whun Chung conducts Messiaen

DG’s in-house Messiaen expert Myung-Whun Chung leads performances of the niche Trois Petites Liturgies and Hymne as part of the...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2008

Elgar Music inspired by children

Much of this music is gently nostalgic and lightly scored and it gains much from the background silence and sophisticated...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1984

Cherubini: Medea, etc

This was always the odd one out among Callas's EMI recordings. Though originally, in the UK, issued (like the others...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1

Other artists, of course, have recorded the 48 on the piano – Schiff and Nikolaieva among the more recent; but...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1998

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

''I deeply loathe it... the finale in particular is something deadly.'' You and I probably feel differently. Tchaikovsky originally felt...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1994

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