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Chopin - Piano Works

Here is a well-planned Chopin recital, wonderfully recorded in a suitably resonant acoustic, and full of warmth, expressive character and...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1999

Brahms/Mendelssohn Piano Quartets II

Mendelssohn’s B minor Piano Quartet may not be in the same league as the Octet that followed a few months...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1998

Vaughan Williams Symphonies 4, 5 & 9

I recall being decidedly underwhelmed by Sir Andrew Davis’s Teldec coupling of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies on its initial...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Brahms String Quartets

Brahms is fortunate here in that both Hungarian and American contenders immediately recognize—and respond to—the warm and vulnerable human heart...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1993

Turina Andalusian Concertos

This unusual tribute to Turina features two first recordings and some more familiar works, with Isidro Barrio as a hard-working...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2000

Handel Cantatas

None of the three cantatas on this disc was included in Chrysander's edition of Handel's music but are edited here...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1990

Dvorák Chamber Works, Vol. 2

As with the previous instalment in the Panocha Quartet’s complete Dvorak cycle for Supraphon (4/98), the total timing of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1998

Venite a Laudare - Music from the 15th-16th Centuries

This recital from Obsidienne (minus its female members and countertenors) examines Italy’s influence on the Franco-Flemish musicians who took up...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1999

Resurrexit

This disc vividly re-creates the complete Easter Sunday celebration of Mass at Westminster Cathedral. As Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor says...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2003

Handel In Italy

If you feel daunted at the prospect of seven Glossa CDs of solo cantatas by Handel, this two-disc anthology provides...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 13/2011

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