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Bruckner Symphony No. 7

After a radical and dramatic account of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony (Decca, 6/89) and a much more staid version of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1992

Holst The Planets

Andrew Davis's account of The Planets reminds me of Sargent's performance rather than Boult's. He takes both ''Mars'' and ''Saturn''...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Donizetti Messa da Requiem

A notable first recording, this, of the work which Donizetti wrote as ''the last proof of my friendship for the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Elgar String Quartet Op 83. Piano Quintet Op 84

No beating about the bush: the Goldners give the most sublimely articulate and raptly communicative reading of Elgar’s elusive String...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2011

Zelenka Officium Defunctorum; Requiem

This presents all of the magnificent music by Jan Dismas Zelenka for the prolonged funeral exequies of Augustus the Strong...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2011

The Lady's Banquet, Volume 1

A curious appendix in a couple of the Handel Gesellschaft volumes offers ornamental harpsichord arrangements by William Babell of airs...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1995

Rubbra Masses

How good it is to have these deeply sympathetic performances (which were set down in the presence of the grateful...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2007

Carter String Quartets Nos 1 & 5

This is a significant release not only in its heralding Elliott Carter’s centenary year, but also because the Pacifica Quartet...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2008

Belcanto - (The) Tenors of the 78 era Part 1

The six 25-minute films seen here, each about a famous tenor whose recordings were made on 78s, were part of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2005

Clarinet Variations

John Finucane, formerly principal clarinet of the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, is fully deserving of this fine example of his art,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2010

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