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Haydn Missa in tempore belli;Salve Regina in G minor

From the Kyrie’s thunderous first forte, timpani rattling ominously, steely valveless trumpets scything through the texture, Harnoncourt never lets you...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1997

Adams & Reich Orchestral Works

Minimalism sounds good on CD. So hypnotic is the music's effect that the slightest blemish easily distracts, and the more...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Bridge String Quartets Nos 2 & 4; Phantasy Piano Quartet

Lucky the reader yet to make the acquaintance of Frank Bridge’s glorious Second Quartet! Written in 1915 and winner of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2005

Brahms Cello Sonatas

On June 24th of this year, Pierre Fournier would have been 80: no doubt Philips had been saving this recording,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

I had to give Jeffrey Tate's EMI performance of Grieg's Peer Gynt music a somewhat poor review last September, and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Aufschnaiter Dulcis Fidium Harmonia

Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (1665-1742) was probably trained in Vienna during the 1680s, and he succeeded Georg Muffat as Kappellmeister of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2004

Miaskovsky Violin Concerto; Symphony 22

Like a recent correspondent, I once spent a frustrating time looking for Miaskovsky scores and records in Moscow. He is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Haydn Orchestral Works

Pleasant, direct performances of Haydn's last two symphonies, enjoyable up to a point. Despite the odd minor lapse, the playing...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1993

Elizabethan Songs: The Lady Musick

If a week can be a long time in politics, 13 years are likely to be no less in music....

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1991

Saint-Saëns Wind Chamber Works

Saint-Saëns’s acute ear for the personality of particular instruments is nowhere more conspicuous than in the three sonatas that he...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 3/2011

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