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Stainer (The) Crucifixion

Among the many reforms and amelioration of standards Stainer brought to cathedral music was a recommendation of bigger choirs to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 2/2010

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6, 'Requiem for Fanny'; String Quintet No 2

Had I not encountered the blistering recent disc from the Elias Quartet, the Canadian-based Alcan Quartet’s account of Mendelssohn’s final...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Yet another Mozart sonata cycle! Katin, we're told, has had the project in mind for some time. These are the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1989

Virtuoso Arias

This recording was made a couple of years ago in Studio One of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, the home base of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

The Romantic Cello

This cellist, Parisian and in his mid-twenties, is a strong and sensitive performer and his programme is well chosen and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1996

Foulds, Vol 2

John Foulds’s work divides sharply into two distinct halves. Mostly he is remembered for his light music but latterly his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011

Hummel & Weber Bassoon Concertos

Weber's Bassoon Concerto is often paired on records with Mozart's, to which, declares the bassoonist and scholar William Waterhouse in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991

Dvorák Symphony No 1; The Hero's Song

The first of Dvorak's nine symphonies and the last of his symphonic poems come here in a generous coupling, both...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989

Schein: instrumental works

The title Banchetto Musicale, taken from Schein's publication of 1617, is a reminder that a great deal of early seventeenth-century...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1986

Mozart Duo Sonatas, Vol 3

Not for Geoffrey Govier and Catherine Mackintosh is the slow movement of K376 “a dreamy reverie in the form of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2010

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