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Strauss, J Wien, Weib und Gesang

I suppose it’s the seemingly incongruous juxtaposition of names that gives these arrangements their particular interest. On the one hand...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2010

Entente Cordiale

Here is a collection of lollipops performed under the baton of a conductor who can be a master in this...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1990

Suprasl - An Orthodox Mosaic

The Russian Patriarchate Choir has yet again produced a magnificent recording of fascinating and unknown chant repertoire. This time, the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2000

Messiaen Des canyons aux etoiles

Although he was only 65 when he wrote it, and was to live for another 18 years, it seems that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2003

Gibbons Choral and Consort Music

This record brings together some of Orlando Gibbons's most celebrated anthems. It is not the first to have done so;...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Nadarejshvili String Quartet No 1. Prokofiev String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Like their Shostakovich performances on Hyperion (11/99), these sinewy and extrovert Prokofiev quartets will impress, even if an excess of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/1999

Beethoven/Mozart Wind Music

Although written in the same year (1781), Mozart's two Serenades in E flat, K375 and C minor, K388 are very...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Elisabeth Grümmer - Great Singers of the Century

The glorious Hansel on the classic Karajan recording for EMI of Humperdinck’s opera, a famed Donna Anna, Agathe, Elisabeth, Elsa...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000

Bach Cantatas

This disc completes Christophe Coin’s three-disc survey of Bach cantatas which include an obbligato part for the five-string violoncello piccolo....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996

Simpson & Rawsthorne Piano Concertos

Here is one of the most welcome of the BBC’s raids on its own archives. Few top-flight virtuosos did as...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

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