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Shostakovich String Quartet Nos 3, 7 & 8

Coupling these quartets seems to be in vogue: this disc follows on from that by the Hagen Quartet (DG, 8/06),...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2006

Monteverdi Madrigals

This is a ‘first’ in more ways than one. To begin with, Monteverdi’s Primo libro of 1587 is, even by...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1996

Dillon String Quartet No. 2; Parjanya-vata; Traumwerk;Vernal Showers

For a composer with James Dillon’s avant­garde credentials‚ the title Vernal Showers might lead you to expect a send­up of...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Goldsmith Planet of the Apes-film score

A milestone in American film music, Jerry Goldsmith’s Planet of the Apes score (1968) is truly extraordinary and the best...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bliss Chamber Works Vol 2

Only last October I gave a guarded welcome to Chamber Domaine’s world première recording of Bliss’s 1915 Piano Quartet. Now...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2003

Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

Masterly performances from Jean-Philippe Collard and the RPO. The great French pianist brings authority and virtuosity to these two concertos...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1987

My Mind to me a kingdom is

A quiet companionable record, reflective company for a fireside evening: an Elizabethan anthology, partly to words, partly instrumental, with ballad...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Henze Symphony No 9

To Hans Werner Henze the Ninth Symphony represents “the most extreme experience I have ever had, both in terms of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1998

Mozart Symphonies Nos 29, 35 & 38

It is surprising that over his years of recording with the Royal Philharmonic Beecham paid so little attention to Mozart...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/1999

Durante Lamentations Jeremiae Prophetae

Francesco Durante was a leading light among a gifted generation of Neapolitan composers that included Leonardo Leo, Nicola Porpora and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1996

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