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Mozart: Middle & Late Symphonies

Just as Philips presented the set of the Beethoven piano sonatas played by Alfred Brendel in a specially attractive package...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1985

Invitation au Voyage - Dietrich Henschel

The first German baritone to record Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel? Only in the occasional over-stressed syllable does Dietrich Henschel...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/2006

Beethoven Symphonies

New recordings of the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Symphonies complete what must be regarded as an historic set of performances,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Buxtehude Vocal Works, Vol 4 - Opera Omnia XI

The 11th volume of Ton Koopman’s complete series of Buxtehude’s works (the fourth of “Opera omnia” to include vocal music)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2010

Biber Requiem

This commemoration (not ‘celebration’, Archiv!) of the 300th anniversary of the death of Biber is subtitled ‘In the midst of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2005

Mozart: Orchestral works

These three serenades, cassations or divertimentos (the titles seem to have been fairly freely interchangeable) were all written in Salzburg...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1985

F. Couperin Harpsichord Works

I had mixed feelings about Olivier Baumont's recording of Rameau's complete solo harpsichord works (Adda, 5/90). Technically he is an...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Corelli: Trio Sonatas

For a composer without an anniversary (though he was without doubt at the height of his powers 200 years ago),...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

Kesti; Klami; Kuula Orchestral Works

Although Uuno Klami’s relatively early death in 1961, aged 61, deprived Finland of one of its senior figures, his reputation...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2003

Strauss, R (Ein) Heldenleben; Tod und Verklärung

A very generously filled Double Decca gathers some of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Prokofiev recordings into a most enjoyable programme. Four symphonies...

Reviewed by jjolly in issue: 11/2002

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