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Nyman String Quartets Nos 2, 3 and 4

Michael Nyman made his reputation with pieces that mesmerised with their vigour and precision, with the way their simple constituent...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 12/2002

Fortune my Foe - Songs of John Dowland

Compilations can create complications in Dowland unless one senses a raison d'etre for the choice of songs, the order of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1993

Beethoven Symphony No 9

There’s a touching paradox here in that while Barenboim’s Arab-Israeli orchestra attempts to counter painful traditional antipathies, it’s Vänskä who...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2006

Mahler Symphony No 1

There have been several outstanding recordings of this symphony in recent years, including live performances by Leonard Bernstein and Claudio...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Kodály String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

''Individual originality can be rooted only in national originality'' was Kodaly's belief. His First Quartet, finished in 1909, was his...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 4/1985

Janácek Káta Kabanová

This performance is a few minutes longer than any other recording of Kata Kabanova, and since Cambreling’s tempos are not...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2000

Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Neapolitan Songs

Why should tenors have all the fun with Neapolitan songs? That is the clear message of this latest disc from...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Rachmaninov Piano Works

This richly exploratory recital – far removed from a popular or commercial programme – contradicts at every turn stale, still...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

Marx Piano Concertos

The Romantisches Klavierkonzert is a big play for the soloist, the difficulties of its densely chromatic writing, ‘exuding the aroma...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2005

Sibelius Symphony No 5. Violin Concerto

It seems only yesterday that I was welcoming Simon Rattle's first EMI recording of the Fifth Symphony with the Philharmonia...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1988

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