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Spohr String Quartets, Vol.6

The project of recording all Spohr's string quartets has now reached Volume 6, and two of his finest works in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1993

Mozart Orchestral & Vocal Works

This set, rather varied both in content and in standard, can be sorted out into four stages: performances with the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1992

Sylvan and Oceanic Delights of Posilipo

They certainly knew how to put on a show back in the seventeenth century. Delizie di Posilipo boscarecce e maritime...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1992

Stanford Symphonies Nos 3 'Irish' & 6 'in honour of G.F. Watts'

Completed in 1887, the Irish Symphony (the Third in Stanford’s set of seven) enjoyed considerable acclaim both at home and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2008

Toscha Seidel Sonatas by Brahms and Grieg

I am afraid that Toscha Seidel (1900–62) was just a name to me before I heard this disc. Wayne Kiley's...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Beethoven Leonore Overture no.3; Prokofiev Love for Three Oranges Suite; Dvorák Symphony No.9

In the years after Sir Thomas Beecham died in 1961, when various powers-that-be were seeking to undermine his orchestra, the...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart Symphonies

As in the first instalment of Marriner's new Mozart series for EMI coupling Nos. 38 and 39 (EL270308-1, 9/85; CD...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1986

Mozart Don Giovanni

If this were a CD it could be recommended with reservations, the chief of which would be that the version...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008

Franck Violin Sonata; Brahms Horn Trio

Because I enjoyed both these performances so much—enough, in fact, to put down my Beckemesser slate altogether—I decided to do...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1985

Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

I must pitch into Marriner, as I have many conductors before him, for not observing the exposition repeat in the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

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