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Handel/Telemann Water Music

Few if any readers will be without a recording of Handel’s Water Music, so the appearance of a new version...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1997

Latilla La Finta cameriera

There can be few musical genres that have swung so wildly between such extremes of popularity and subsequent neglect as...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2001

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

This looks interesting. The ingredients include a conductor best known on records in a very different repertoire, and an orchestra...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Brahms String Quartets Op 51 & Op 67; Piano Quintet Op 34

The Emerson Quartet celebrate their 30th anniversary with the three Brahms quartets plus the Piano Quintet. For an ensemble who...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 9/2007

Bruckner Symphony No 7

These two performances could scarcely be more different, but as recordings both are of only limited interest, even in the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1988

Beethoven String Quartets Op.59/2 and Op.18/4

The Endellion Quartet’s experience tells impressively in this collected edition not just of the regular Beethoven string quartets but also...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2009

Concert de danse

In this scruffily casual, shallow-pated world of ours one cannot help casting an envious glance at a time when deportment...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1997

Fauré Piano Quintets

Fauré’s two piano quintets are music of an inimitable strength, radiance and intimacy, even when they release their secrets slowly....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2009

Beethoven and Schubert String Quartets

The Brodsky Quartet consists of English instrumentalists hiding under the name of the Russian violinist Adolf Brodsky, the dedicatee of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Works for Piano Trio

It is good to see a commercial firm sponsoring a recording by gifted young musicians. The Barbican Piano Trio were...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

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