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Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Four baroque trumpet concertos, none of them really distinctive, enlivened by Ludwig Guttler's superbly assured and confident playing and rather...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1989

Dvorák String Quintet & Sextet

Dvorak's Quintet dates from the same time as his American Quartet, when he was staying happily surrounded though touched by...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1989

Schmidt Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln

When I first heard Harnoncourt’s account of Franz Schmidt’s great oratorio I was most impressed. By the splendid choral sound,...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Praetorius, M Dances from Terpsichore

Praetorius’s 1612 collection has given rise to recordings of variegated plumage‚ with many different sorts and families of instruments –...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Massenet Werther

Here is something which those of us who thought of it at all never expected to see or hear –...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2006

Bach Tönet, ihr Pauken! - Cantatas, BWV207 & 214

Whether parody or prototype, Bach’s handful of secular cantatas present the face of a municipal composer who often sought to...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2006

Airs and Dances of Shakespeare's Time

This territory has already been explored many times but it is a rich one, wide open to further well conducted...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1993

Jennifer Larmore - L'Étoile

Every mezzo these days, it seems, wants to try their luck at the many and various heroines (and travesty heroes)...

Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 9/2003

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; Divertimento

The first point worth making is that the Royal Philharmonic strings sound more secure, more lustrous and more tonally distinctive...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bach Keyboard Works

I have little but praise for this Bach playing. It is technically accomplished, rhythmic, thoughtful and relaxed. Maggie Cole's account...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1989

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