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Brahms Symphony No. 3. Schumann Symphony No 4

These performances have been reissued several times since the appearance of the original ten-inch 1950s mono LPs, but it was...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Lehár Die Lustige Witwe

This is a ''Merry Widow'' with a difference—a live performance by the Vienna Volksoper company, albeit recorded not in Vienna...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1986

Beethoven/Strauss Orchestral Works

The discography for Alan Hovhaness, who died in June aged 89, now hearteningly takes up an entire page in the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2000

Henry's Music

Alamire’s recent survey of Verdelot madrigals already had a Henrician connection. Here the king takes centre stage, at least in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2009

Mozart Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 11-13

Perhaps the 26-year-old Mozart, not long in Vienna and anxious to progress, had his eye on wider coverage when he...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2007

Holloway Orchestral Works

To quote Harold Wilson, ''a year is a long time in politics''. In music, on the other hand, a decade...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1994

Mozart and Haydn at Basildon Park

The Delme find the shape, structure and even the nobility of Haydn’s Emperor but the detail seems sadly lacking. The...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 5/1999

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2

The wonders of modern technology! I don’t know the Beethovensaal of the Stuttgart Liederhalle, but can it really have imparted...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

Charles Kullmann (1903-1982)

Whenever I listen to records of Kullman I always have a guilty feeling, similar to that I have when hearing...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1993

Bach Fugues (arranged for string quartet)

A fugue is not a form but rather a texture that encompasses simultaneous musical lines. Ideally the lines ought to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2008

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