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Budapest Quartet: the complete Victor recordings

In their half-century of active life (1917-67), the Budapest Quartet naturally changed their personnel and, famously, their essential style when...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997

Hartmann Concerto funebre

It is such an obvious idea to combine Hartmann’s Concerto funebre (1939, rev 1959) with the four unaccompanied works from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2007

Brahms/Mendelssohn Sacred Choral Works

Music with healing in its touch, no mere complacency in its beneficence, and a technical mastery that fortifies its gentleness...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

A Choice Collection of Lessons and Ayres

If proof were required that the harpsichord is not an inexpressive instrument this recording would provide it and, when it...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1989

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Decca were the first to give us a complete mono Sibelius cycle from the same artists, Anthony Collins and the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1985

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

If The Seasons still lags far behind The Creation in popularity, Haydn's sublime, joyous vision of Arcadian innocence and harmony...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1994

Rossini Il Signor Bruschino

Witty and sentimental but also at times hair-raisingly cruel, Il Signor Bruschino is the last, and arguably the best, of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1993

Barbirolli in New York - 1938 Wagner Concert

Recorded live in Carnegie Hall in November 1938, these Wagner performances, never issued before, are astonishing on several counts. First...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1995

Richard Tauber sings Lieder

Although Tauber shouldn't serve as a model for singers aspiring to become Lieder specialists, his accomplishments in this field are...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

When prizes are distributed at the Met, it often seems that the soloists get theirs and that even the chorus...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2010

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