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Haydn String Quartets, Op 50 Nos 4-6

With Op. 50, arguably the composer’s most ascetic and intellectually rigorous set of quartets, the Kodaly Quartet rounds off its...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1999

Francesco Merli (1887-1976) - I

Rather as in Victorian England ''every boy and every girl'' was born to be ''either a little Liberal or else...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Rejoice as I certainly do in the existence and publication of this historic recording, I still find it raises questions...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2006

Alfred Hill Symphonies Nos. 3 and 7 etc

A previous Marco Polo disc containing the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies by Australian composer Alfred Hill (1879-1960) was warmly welcomed...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1996

Brahms Piano Trios, Vol 1

Last year I wrote enthusiastically about the Brahms trios recorded by Nicholas Angelich with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon. This new...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2005

Bud Freeman - Swingin' with 'The Eel'

Helen Ward (1916-98) made her reputation with Benny Goodman. Joining him at the age of 18, just as his rise...

Reviewed by bpriestley in issue: 1/1999

Nielsen Symphonies 1 & 4

Two cycles of Nielsen symphonies are currently underway in Sweden; one from Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1988

Bizet Carmen

Bizet had to subdue Carmen’s realism to placate the Opera-Comique’s petit-bourgeois sensibilities. Francesco Rosi reinjects a powerful dose of authentic...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2000

Bruch & Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos

Considering the freshness of its invention Lalo's Symphonie espagnole is not as generously represented in the CD catalogue as might...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1990

Bruckner Symphony No 5

“Classical” would be a polite way of describing this Bruckner Fifth. Or possibly “neo-classical”, given the long association the Suisse...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2010

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