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Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Tchaikovsky's music has, over the years, suffered a pretty depressing catalogue of uses and abuses, but this collection makes partial...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Kronos Quartet Pieces of Africa

This is the kind of issue likely to provoke knee-jerk reactions. If you like the Kronos Quartet and if you...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Beethoven String Quartets

The first sounds on this record prove to be admirably representative of the whole—not extreme in dynamic contrasts, not particularly...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Schubert Chamber works

I'm sure quite a few collectors will have these two performances in their library already as part of the Gramophone...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988

El Cancionero Palacio

Two manuscripts contain most of what we know about Spanish polyphonic song between about 1450 and 1520. The earlier of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1992

Bruckner Symphony No.7

Great Brucknerian that he is, Wand has never managed to produce a Bruckner Seventh to set beside his own finest...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2000

Mozart: Works for Piano & Orchestra

This is workmanlike Mozart playing. Freshness and straightforwardness are the keynotes of the performance of the C major Concerto, K246,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1990

Tallis Spem in alium

This is not the first overdubbed Spem. The Kronos Quartet produced its own version many years ago, in which Tallis’s...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2006

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

This fourth issue in Mark Wigglesworth’s stop-go Shostakovich cycle is a worthy successor to earlier instalments. Fierce articulation at deliberate...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2006

New Year's Day Concert, 1998

This year’s Vienna New Year’s Day Concert confirmed the institution is in excellent health. The Vienna Philharmonic is still the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1998

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