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Mahler Symphony No 4

Rattle springs two big surprises in the first four bars. Tempo 1 might initially strike you as overcautious, an air...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1998

Audra McDonald - Way Back to Paradise

If you don’t yet know who Audra McDonald is, then you will, you surely will, after hearing this, her debut...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Furtwängler Symphonic Concerto

Furtwangler was the performing musican who, more than any other, provided the criteria by which Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Haydn: Vocal works

So many skills go into the making of such a record as this that it would be monstrous for the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

Scarlatti, F Dixit Dominus

Details are sketchy of the life of Francesco Scarlatti – younger brother of Alessandro and uncle of Domenico – but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2004

R. Clarke Songs with Piano and Violin

Gamut Classics are to be congratulated for bringing to our attention this well-balanced, enthusiastically performed compilation of songs and chamber...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1993

Norwegian Rhapsody

The intention of this record seems to be to provide a pleasant, undemanding programme of Norwegian music, with a mixture...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Tavener Ex Maria Virgine

Tavener has made a huge impact with his sacred choral music with, for example, over 40 recordings of The Lamb....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2009

Mozart/Haydn Masses

Haydn and Mozart here sound a little more like Beethoven than they usually do, or than they do on the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Vivaldi's Four Seasons keep coming around much more frequently than their meteorological equivalents; one might age perceptibly while counting the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986

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