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Mozart Serenade K361, 'Gran Partita'

For me, the outstanding recording of this unique work has always been the 1947 account directed by Furtwängler. More recent...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2006

Handel Israel in Egypt

Israel in Egypt was never very popular in Handel's own day, mainly because its music is predominantly choral; but during...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1994

Mozart Demofoonte

Mozart contemplated setting Metastasio’s famous libretto Demofoonte while he was at Paris in 1778, but never acted on it. So...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2008

Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

Telarc's Cleveland/Maazel coupling of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on the Bare Mountain (11/84) was one of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992

Shura Cherkassky Live, Volume 6

Here are Vols. 5 and 6 of Decca's incomparable and, at last, progressing tribute to a great and unique artist....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1995

Felicity Lott in Recital (DVD)

The presentation of this DVD is misleading and unhelpful. For a start, the title ‘Felicity Lott in recital’ is a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2000

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1

The venom with which César Cui reviewed Rachmaninov’s First Symphony at its 1897 premiere has long since been neutralised by...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 5/2010

Lully Divertissements

This is the first commercial recording by a talented group of players who have performed in London on occasion during...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991

Janácek (The) Cunning Little Vixen

Many, if not most, Janácek devotees will resist the very idea of this DVD version of The Cunning Little Vixen,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2003

Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 1-5; Sinfonia Concertante

Recent period-instrument performances from Giuliano Carmignola (Archiv, 9/08) and (in Nos 3-5) Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi, 5/06) have treated Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2009

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