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Mozart Symphonies Nos 31 & 35

I thought Bruggen's recording of Mozart's G minor Symphony No. 40 (Philips CD 416 329-2PH, 7/86) as persuasive as any...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1986

Rosetti Symphonies

We don’t often hear symphonies from the 1780s that are not by Haydn or Mozart, and it is salutary to...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1998

Naumann Betulia Liberata

Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801) received his first musical training at the Kreuzschule in Dresden, and probably studied with Hasse. Although...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2006

Metamorphosis

String quartets tend to offer all-Bartók or all-Ligeti discs, so this three-stage history of the medium in Hungary over the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2010

Strauss II, J Fürstin Ninetta

Naxos seems to be specialising in Johann Strauss’s later – and, it has to be admitted, lesser – operettas. Following...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2009

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 19

Michelangeli playing Mozart? A rare enough event, in all conscience, but not quite unheard of. His admirers may already have...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1990

Beethoven Septet, Op. 20. Mendelssohn Octet, Op. 20

This version of the Mendelssohn Octet challenges the supremacy of the full-price Academy of St Martin's disc (Philips), since the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1988

Mendelssohn Chamber Works

This is a dazzling performance of the Octet, in just the right way: that is to say, the virtuosity is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Jommelli Choral Works

“A sei voci” seems a conspicuously inappropriate name for the present ensemble, which consists of 12 voices plus positive organs,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997

Mozart Serenade, K361

With this pair of releases one might, I think, say that the playing of period wind instruments has come of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1989

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