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Shostakovich Symphony No 11

To dismiss a recording of a 65-minute symphony on the basis of one note would not seem very intelligent. But...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Shostakovich Symphonies 9 & 12

The great achievement of Haitink's performance of the Leningrad Symphony is that it redefines the sense in which it is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1986

M.A.Charpentier Vocal Works

This delightful new issue from yet another small but enterprising company duplicates little or nothing otherwise available in the current...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991

Mozart Symphonies Nos 31 and 34

This latest addition to John Eliot Gardiner's Mozart symphony series offers characteristic readings—finely detailed, powerful, falling comfortably on the ear....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1988

Bach Sonata No 1 BWV1001; Partita No 1 BWV 1002; Stravinsky Suite Italienne

How does one parse music that flows in an endless stream of notes with nary a pause for a breath?...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2005

Russian Orchestral Works

This is a generous and well-planned concert and it is brilliantly recorded. I am therefore all the more sorry to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1988

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Here we have a curious mixture: an 'authentic' text—the original Italian version is followed, with none of the additions (even...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1991

Martinu String Quartets Nos 1, 3 & 6

Martinù’s seven numbered string quartets do not form a coherent cycle in the way that the quartets of Bartók, Simpson...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2009

Pushkin Romances

Here is yet another compilation of Russian Romances from a master purveyor of self-regarding baritonal syrup. This time Hvorostovsky offers...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2010

Enescu String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

There’s something peculiarly appealing about delving among the pages of an expansive, imaginatively written string quartet. Schoenberg, Reger and Hindemith...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

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