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Jack String Quartets

With his comments on the booklet cover picture – Downs in Winter by Eric Ravilious – Adrian Jack pinpoints the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2006

Ben Heppner sings Richard Strauss

In discussing Heppner's attributes, the insert-note writer on the RCA issue sprays about the names of tenors of the past...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995

Schumann Complete Piano and Orchestra Works

The Piano Concerto is the draw here but it is the shorter pieces that are most interesting. Effectively, this single...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 3/2011

Bax Symphony No 5; Russian Suite

With this issue of the Fifth, Chandos completes its cycle of the seven Bax symphonies conducted by Bryden Thomson and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Copland: Orchestral works

Copland's orchestral textures are such that they seem particularly to benefit from CD, which here conveys the music's freshness with...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Haydn Piano Sonatas

Once shamefully neglected, Haydn’s piano sonatas are enjoying a much-needed renaissance on record. After celebrating Marc André-Hamelin’s dazzling and musicianly...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2007

Fux & Haydn Keyboard Works

Assorted keyboard works by Haydn are here surprisingly juxtaposed with music by J. J. Fux (1660-1741), whose famed textbook Gradus...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1999

Angela Gheorghiu - Live at La Scala

The audience is clearly out for an orgy of diva-worship, applause after every song, so this is a recital to...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 11/2007

Haydn Symphonies 86 & 88

Frans Bruggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century continue their excellent Philips series of Haydn symphonies with two works...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1989

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17, 21 and 31

This thought-provoking recital unites three sharply contrasted Beethoven sonatas. For David Wilde, the “irrepressible optimism” of the Waldstein is opposed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2011

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