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Bruckner Symphony No 5

The word ‘vision’ is much misused these days yet to talk of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s ‘view’ of Bruckner’s Fifth won’t quite...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2005

Szigeti Historical Public Performances

Invited audiences at the BBC's invaluable orchestral concerts all know what tremendous work the house orchestras put in, sometimes with...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Schumann/Brahms Lieder Recital

Whatever performance may in the meantime have intervened, listening to Seefried’s Frauenliebe again is like returning to base, to the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996

Sermons and Devotions-The King's Singers

Richard Rodney Bennett is probably better acquainted with The King’s Singers’ sound than anyone else. It’s telling, then, that of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1996

Elgar Orchestral Works

The lighter pieces are set in between the more serious, more substantial ones: the Introduction and Allegro, the Serenade, the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Balades a III Chans

Good things apparently do come in pairs. Having so recently praised the Orlando Consort’s survey of sacred music from the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1996

Prokofiev; Schlime; Ravel Piano Concertos

Here is music-making to wonder at. Rarely can the two concertos have been performed with such meticulous care and affection....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2006

Vivaldi Stabat Mater

At first glance it seemed odd to me that an ostensibly countertenor programme of music by Vivaldi should have omitted...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1996

Ruders Piano Concerto No 2. Bel Canto. Serenade on the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

The fount of creative energy that has sustained Poul Ruders since the late 1960s shows no sign of running dry....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2011

Valerie Masterson Recital

In many ways, Valerie Masterson is the closest thing we have to Galli-Curci. Her training is Italianate, she is almost...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1986

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