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Rachmaninov The Bells & Taneyev John of Damascus

Anissimov’s period at the helm of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland has coincided with a marked improvement in that...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Handel Imeneo

Imeneo, Handel's penultimate opera, was tentatively composed in 1738, then set aside, performed (twice only) at the end of 1740,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1993

Mahler Symphony No 4

It’s business as usual, notwithstanding Philippe Herreweghe’s change of label, and this scrupulously prepared, gently radical take on a familiar...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2011

Beethoven Piano Quartets

Not since the Cummings Trio and Anthony Goldstone back in 1987 has any team come to the rescue of the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Brahms Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3

Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis have chosen to open the disc with the most apparently sunny of the sonatas, the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2010

(Les) Trois Marie

These performers are an ideal group for this music. Written in all probability for a community of Benedictine nuns, this...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/2000

Smetana Dalibor

One of Italy’s more enterprising opera houses, Cagliari’s Teatro Lirico has in recent years staged Italian premieres of Wagner’s Die...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2001

Schubert Complete Symphonies

When I started collecting recordings of the Schubert symphonies‚ it was only the Unfinished and the Great C major which...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas

Having the task of hearing and comparing two complete cycles of Beethoven sonatas—plus a third, when Daniel Barenboim's earlier HMV...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1985

Jadin Piano music

I am not one to believe that there are many hidden masterpieces lying abandoned on the shelves of music libraries....

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1986

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