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Schumann String Quartets, Nos 1 & 3

When JOC reviewed the Lark Quartet’s Arabesque coupling of these two works back in March 1997 she remarked that the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Steiner All This, and Heaven Too; A Stolen Life OST

When Warners’ Giant was previewing at cinemas in the US, the unfinished score by Dimitri Tiomkin was temporarily tracked with...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2003

Bach in Brazil

The universality of Bach’s music has been well established by the wide variety of ‘inauthentic’ treatments it has been subjected...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2000

Crawford Seeger (The) World of Ruth Crawford Seeger

I think that every note of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s solo piano music is on this disc‚ and it adds up...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Rossini Péchés de Vieillesse 6, Album pour les efants dégourdis

The 12-piece “Album for bright children” includes some of the most frequently anthologised of Rossini’s late piano pieces. Naxos’s 30-year-old...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2009

Weber (Der) Freischütz

Der Freischütz is a work on which young German opera conductors cut their teeth and to which old German conductors...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2008

Magnard: Orchestral Works

Until Ansermet's Decca recording of Magnard's Third Symphony reached us in 1969, it is safe to say that his music...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989

Beethoven/Schubert Piano Trios

One reason why the recordings by Thibaud, Cortot and Casals have such a wonderful freshness is that the players came...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Ravel Vocal & Orchestral Works

At opposite interpretative poles in Sheherazade are Suzanne Danco (1954 Decca Historic) and Maria Ewing (1989 EMI): the former with...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1993

Mozart Coronation Mass, K317; Missa solemnis, K337

The Masses in C, K317 and 337, which date from 1779 and 1780 respectively, are the last of Mozart's 15...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1984

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