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Beethoven Late String Quartets

These celebrated recordings by the Hollywood Quartet first appeared in 1958 and had to wait for almost a quarter of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1997

Bach & Vialdi Violin Concertos

The Camerata Lysy, like the International Menuhin Music Academy Gstaad of which it is a part, is directed by the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1987

Jacques Thibaud & Alfred Cortot

Biddulph have thankfully done very little tinkering around with these performances and I am glad that the surface noise of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1991

Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Opp 46 & 72

An air of businesslike formality settles over these neatly tailored performances, a case more of swinging rolled umbrellas than swirling...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Dvorák/Ravel/Sibelius Orchestral Works

The fifth volume of Bach’s sacred cantatas performed by the Bach Collegium Japan continues their Weimar survey with five pieces...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Vasks Message

Unfortunately, it is difficult to describe an unfamiliar composer's style without using comparisons. Latvian-born Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) openly admits...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/1995

Beethoven Music for Wind Instruments

Beethoven's two substantial pieces for wind ensemble, the Op. 71 Sextet and the Op. 103 Octet (early in spite of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1987

Copying Beethoven - Music from the Motion Picture

Forget what you know regarding Beethoven’s life, for as director Agnieszka Holland writes in the CD booklet, this film is...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2007

Gabrieli, A Missa Pater peccavi. Motets. Instrumental Music

The solemnity of Andrea Gabrieli’s music came to the attention of many listeners in the Mass sections of Paul McCreesh’s...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 1

As the excellent and thoroughly researched booklet to this new release points out, Schubert's first known composition was for piano...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1989

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