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Handel Joshua

Hot on the heels of Peter Neumann’s recent version (MDG, 1/09), here is a live recording of Joshua made at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2009

McEnery (The) Resurrection

Here is a difficult one, the difficulty lying in the ease, and (since we are dealing in paradoxes) that being...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2008

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Mitsuko Uchida

It was as a Mozart player of uncommon finesse and sensibility that Mitsuko Uchida first made her mark. And it...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999

Holloway Gilded Goldberg

A year or so ago I chanced upon a CD on the French Assai label featuring Josef Rheinberger’s two-piano version...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2003

Beethoven Works for Violin & Orchestra

The rule now seems that all the finest versions of the Beethoven Violin Concerto are being recorded live, not least...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1993

Mussorgsky Khovanshchina

This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years, and all three of them use in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1992

Bach in Los Angeles

With two organs available, at opposite ends of a long nave, a total of 214 ranks (including, we are told,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Schumann & Hindemith Cello Works

Pieter Wispelwey is an acutely sensitive, impressionable cellist, spontaneously responsive enough to every passing innuendo in Schumann’s concerto to make...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1998

Duruflé Complete Choral Works

Tchaikovsky's half-hearted comments, which get much more dismissive, were occasioned by the enervating task of editing Bortnyansky's complete works for...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 and 6

The Fifth and Sixth make almost as stimulating a pair as the Fourth and Fifth, developing as they do several...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2010

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