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Schubert Piano Sonata No 20, D959; Moments musicaux, D780

Here is musical gold indeed. Martin Helmchen is a 27-year-old German pianist who won the Clara Haskil Competition in 2001...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2009

Boccherini Guitar Quintets Nos.3 & 9

Boccherini's friend and patron the Marquis Benavente asked him to adapt some of his existing chamber works to include a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1990

Hoddinott Vocal and Orchestral Works

I don't think it's just my imagination, subliminally affected by the name of Bryden Thomson and the Chandos logo: surely...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1989

Bridge Oration. Britten Cello Symphony

This is a most intelligent coupling of two English masterpieces for the cello, neither being an orthodox concerto and neither...

Reviewed in issue 5/1988

Weber Oberon

Oberon has always been a problem opera, ever since Weber conducted it at Covent Garden in 1826. Compelled to fit...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Valerie Masterson - Airs d'Opéra

Time rushes on downhill; can it really be 20 years ago that Valerie Masterson enchanted English National Opera audiences as...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Monteverdi: Sacred vocal works

As Peter Holman rightly points out in his sleeve-note to this issue, ''for every hundred people who know Orfeo and...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Nørgard Nuit des Hommes

Nuits des hommes (‘The Night of Mankind’, 1995-96) is not really an opera, despite its prospective inclusion in David Fanning’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2005

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

It is not far short of 40 years since Sir Colin Davis with the LSO made his first electrifying recording...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

For all its fresh, lavish packaging, this Rosenkavalier set is the long-circulated, good-to-excellent 1976 studio recording licensed from Philips by...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2011

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