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Sacred Songs of Sorrow

These 'Sacred Songs of Sorrow' mostly come from mid- to late-17th-century Lutheran Germany, where music with multiple viols was associated...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Stenhammar Songs

With every new addition to the Stenhammar discography, this composer grows in my estimation. Now that the two symphonies, the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990

Mozart Violin Concertos 3 & 5

All four of these recordings offer a thoroughly enjoyable account of what are surely Mozart's finest violin concertos. To allow...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

PJBE Finale

For 35 years, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble have astonished audiences with their technical expertise and their surpassing artistry. It...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Beethoven/Schubert Symphonies

The first thing you are likely to notice about this record, apart from the general fizz and paciness of Levine's...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1994

Russian orchestral works

This programme of popular Russian pieces gives us an opportunity to assess the qualities of this latest overnight success in...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

The Wallace Collection

Here is something of an avant-garde feast for those who enjoy brass sonorities but like also to be stretched by...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1992

Beethoven; Schoenberg; Schumann Piano Works

The Beethoven sonata is the forgotten sibling of the Moonlight, both subtitled Quasi una fantasia. Claudio Arrau’s conception unfolds in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2005

Wolf Orchestral Works

This first recording of Penthesilea for a very long while (first ever on CD) is all the more welcome for...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

Vivaldi: Flute concertos

Here are performances which are richly endowed with qualities that give them distinction. Above all, perhaps, they are rich in...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

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