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Mahler/Wagner Vocal Works

These are, in some ways, classic performances that are hors concours. In both Mahler cycles, I had forgotten just how...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1986

Mozart Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 9 and 25

Brendel’s latest recording‚ of K271 and K503‚ is alive with provocation‚ subtlety and distinction. In both widely contrasted concertos he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2002

Kuhnau Sacred Music

As the distinguished German-baroque scholar John Butt points out in his clear and informative note, Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) is often...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1998

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Centenary celebrations are all very well for promoting and focusing attention on their given subject (one day the lucky centenarian...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1991

Bacri/Crumb/Dutilleux/Henze/Ligeti - Works for Cello

All credit to Emmanuelle Bertrand for choosing an all-20th-century programme for her first solo recital. Its content is as well...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000

Stravinsky Ballets

When the LP of this Bernstein version of Petrushka appeared, I compared the sound unfavourably with the DG recording of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1985

French Chamber Works

A subtle piece of programme planning. The ‘normal’ coupling for Ravel’s Quartet is Debussy’s‚ to which Ravel was to a...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Bach Orchestral Suites

''Suites For Dancing'' is the title of this disc yet Bach's Orchestral Suites were probably not intended for dancing; indeed,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1991

Vivaldi Concertos; Arias; Sinfonias

Since Vol 1 of this series, La Serenissima have had the sense to elevate to larger type the disc’s subheading,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2007

Lauridsen Lux aeterna

There is some outstanding choral singing here, particularly in the six Madrigali. These are vocally challenging works demanding the kind...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2005

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