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Dvorák and Smetana: String Quartets

After the excitement of hearing their bracing Bartok cycle (the Gramophone Record of the Year in 1989), I've found the...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 2/1991

Britten Cello Symphony. Elgar Cello Concerto

Truls Mork's earlier BIS account of the Britten Cello Symphony with Neeme Jarvi and the Bergen PO was impressive enough,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1999

Brixi Organ Concertos

Hot on the heels of Jan Hora's disc of three of Brixi's organ concertos (see above) comes this release of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1992

Alkan/Debussy/Delius/Messiaen Cello Sonatas

An unlikely but compelling recital, dominated quantitatively by Alkan’s typical blend of the sublime and the ridiculous. Ehde approaches the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1998

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne

This is the staging that opened the airy new Glyndebourne in May 1994, and this disc captures its celebratory vigour....

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2000

Schenck The Nymphs of the Rhine, Vol. 2

At the beginning of the 18th century Johannes Schenk dedicated a collection of sonatas and suites for two bass viols...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Bliss Choral Works

The very sound of The Finzi Singers, with their full-bodied sopranos and solid choral vibrato only serves to underline the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1991

New Year's Concert 1993

Arriving from Philips in double-quick time this is one of the most infectiously enjoyable of ail the recordings of New...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1993

Holmboe String Quartets, Vol. 2

In welcoming the first CD in this series (6/94) I spoke of the performances as masterly and “worthy of the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1996

Bach Goldberg Variations; Italian Concerto; Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue

The 1930s were great years for recording Bach. Busch, Cortot and Boyd Neel with their respective orchestras performed all the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/2000

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