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Beethoven Secular Vocal Works

A good selection of the British and Irish folk-song arrangements, with canons and other settings in German and Italian; but...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Shostakovich Complete Symphonies

This is a wonderful season for reissues and – notwithstanding the reservation of February’s debaters – for “definitive” recordings. Even...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2007

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

With his 19-CD series of the C. P. E. Bach concertos well under way, the energetic Miklos Spanyi would seem...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1999

Cervelló Works for Strings

A sometime violinist himself, Catalan composer Jordi Cervelló, born in 1935, declares in an introductory quotation his fascination with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2004

Haydn Die Schoepfung (DVD)

This enjoyable performance of Haydn’s supreme choral masterpiece was recorded at the Lucerne Festival of 1992. It takes place in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000

(A) Roaring Flame: Works by Dillon, Fox, Knussen & Maw

Double bassist Corrado Canonici says that he wanted this disc to cover as wide a range as possible; and from...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2005

Bruckner String Quintet

I wish I liked this performance more. The last recording of Bruckner's quintet I've been able to trace is more...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1988

Haydn Cello Concertos

In addition to the two familiar concertos‚ we’re here given a third‚ another D major work‚ for cello and strings‚...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Wagner Symphonies

Wagner's First Symphony in C, composed in 1832 when he was 19, follows hard on the heels of his two...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1993

Delalande: Sinfonies

Lalande or Delalande (that was how he signed his name), depending on which reference books you read, wrote a large...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1986

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