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Haydn Piano Sonatas

Miklós Dolinszky (Könemann Music, Budapest) doubts if No 11 is by Haydn; Georg Feder (New Grove) thinks it probably is,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2006

Gluck Ballet Music

Gluck's Don Juan ballet of 1761 is reckoned just as important in the history of ballet as his Orfeo ed...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1993

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 1 and 6

Vladimir Jurowski is familiar to UK audiences through his live music-making with the LPO. Now this adaptable maestro is striking...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2006

Ireland String Quartets

John Ireland was just 14 when he entered London’s Royal College of Music to study piano with Frederick Cliffe. Two...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2006

Romantic Organ Music, Vol.2

The demand of collectors for organ music and for the infinitely varied sounds of this protean instrument has had a...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1988

Praetorius In dulci jubilo

Praetorius (c1571-1621) was the first great musical commentator and elaborator of the Lutheran chorale. Prolific he certainly was, with over...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 3/1996

Bruckner Symphony No 6

This latest addition to Chailly’s Amsterdam Bruckner cycle begins, in an interesting and mildly provoking way, with four of Hugo...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1999

Castelnuovo-Tedesco & Villa-Lobos Guitar Concertos

Many artists have rightly said that you shouldn't play a work unless you love it, a sermon that seems not...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986

Haydn String Quartets Op.17

Small works perhaps, not in the same league as the masterpieces of the genre to come, but far from small...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2010

Beethoven: Early String Quartets

In reviewing this set on its first appearance I registered admiration rather than unqualified pleasure. This superb ensemble has all...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1986

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