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Mozart Symphonies

This is Jukka-Pekka Saraste's debut on disc with the orchestra of which he is Principal Conductor, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1988

Schubert String Quintet, D 956; Quartet, D703

From tempestuousness to rumination and all things in between; it’s a palette of feelings that requires to be confronted in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2012

Ockeghem & Josquin Desprez Masses

This represents very good value for money. In the black disc versions each work took up one-and-a-half sides; so the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1986

Wolf Goethe Lieder

Holzmair is a refreshing and challenging singer. He follows no known school and quite avoids the influence of Fischer-Dieskau. His...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1993

Beethoven String Quartet & Quintet

Although the Beethoven string quartets are generously represented on CD and there is even a version of the transcription of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990

Verdi Rigoletto

This performance marked the return of Bjorling to the Met after a wartime break of four years spent mostly in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2000

Mustonen Orchestral Works

Olli Mustonen’s music mirrors the keen-eared, eagle-eyed, fidgety pianistic talent that we already know from his recordings of, say, Bach...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Schubert Orchestral Works

Well-intentioned, unexceptional performances; excepting the missing 'introductory' four bars at the start of the symphony's first movement exposition repeat—the conductor's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1993

Grainger Works for Symphonic Wind Ensemble

The booklet cover pictures Grainger in First World War khaki, a soprano saxophone slung around his neck—''musician, second class'' in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1991

Rossini (La) pietra del paragone

La pietra del paragone was one of Rossini’s earliest smash-hits. First heard at La Scala, Milan in the autumn of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2004

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