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Mozart Symphonies 28 & 33

Even for a musician so precociously gifted as Mozart, there was a big difference between a symphony written at the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1987

Haydn Mass 11

Having championed this recording in the face of all comers, I can hardly be surprised that Decca have recut and...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Was Bluebeard such a bad guy? Maybe not, supposes conductor Iván Fischer in his booklet-notes for Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 13/2011

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 21 and 24

You'll hear balletic athleticism from strings and woodwind with brazen brass and hard-edged timpani. Add a lissom shapeliness to phrasing...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2007

Macdowell Piano Works, Vol.1

It is easy, in our hard-bitten age, to be patronizing or dismissive about Edward MacDowell (1860—1908), to forget that he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1995

Mozart Così fan Tutte

Così fan tutte’s ambiguities and ironies lend themselves to updating – as in ENO’s latest production, Glyndebourne’s ocean-liner setting, or...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2004

Nielsen Symphonies

The cornerstone of a Nielsen symphony cycle tend to be the accounts of the Fourth and Fifth, the latter perhaps...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2005

Monteverdi: Choral Works

This would appear to be the twentieth recording of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers. More than that, it is John Eliot Gardiner's...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 1/1991

Mozart Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3

This segment of the Academy's monumental survey of Mozart's symphonies (and he wrote more than the numbered 41) spans the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1987

Rimsky-Korsakov/Ravel Orchestral Works

A sumptuous digital recording and consistently responsive orchestral playing ensures the success of this new version of Rimsky-Korsakov's exotic Arabian...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1989

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