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Bruch & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

If you propose to issue a CD of new concerto performances at about two-thirds of the normal price it seems...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Mozart (Le) nozze de Figaro

Here is a Figaro to put with the 1973 Glyndebourne production placed among the top five operatic DVDs (4/08). Presiding...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol. 5

Here is another significant document in this historic series, because it enshrines valuable extracts from the original Viennese performances of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Schütz: Choral Works

Although the Christmas Story is surely one of Schutz's most popular and frequently performed works, it has not often been...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Andriessen De Tijd (Time).

Despite the constant presence of female voices, De Tijd (''Time'') is essentially a large-scale instrumental composition, drawing inspiration from the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Pettersson Symphony No 13

Life did not deal kindly with Gustav Allan Pettersson (1911-80), as Andreas Meyer's biographical note accompanying this new disc makes...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Busch Chamber Players play Handel etc

While the Busch Chamber Players’ 1935 recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (reissued on EMI, 12/91) has entered gramophone legend, their...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1997

Schubert Mayrhofer-Lieder, Volume 1

As the Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition is arranged by poet, Mayrhofer will win equal prominence alongside his more illustrious counterparts, Goethe...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2000

Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol II

No dynamic indications or marks of expression in three of the sonatas; and No 53 (Christa Landon’s chronology is followed)...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Leoncavallo I Pagliacci

I'm sure I should have liked this but I found that the distractions, intentional and otherwise, were far too obtrusive....

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

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