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Mozart Complete String Quartets, Vol.5

These quartets in B flat and F are Mozart's last, and the Talich Quartet bring to them a gravity of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1993

Ibert Chamber Music with Flute

A Prix de Rome winner, if hardly a household name, Ibert (1890-1962) has not been badly served by the gramophone,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1995

Bruckner Symphony No 7 (ed. Haas)

Otto Klemperer, Sir Adrian Boult, Carlo Maria Giulini and Walter Legge made up the panel which awarded the young James...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2008

Bax Piano Works, Volume 4

The latest Naxos helping of Bax gets under way with the first commercial recording of the 1909 Festival Overture in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2007

Mozart Don Giovanni

By the end of this helter-skelter, aggressively overpointed performance of Mozart’s drama giocosa, I felt as breathless and exhausted as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2000

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 3

Whether it is a case of dramatic mood-swings or more simply a retreat into melancholy with advancing years, I wouldn't...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1994

Collection of Sixteen Motets on Psalm 116

In 1616 a Saxon courtier and councillor in Jena, Burkhard Grossmann, sustained an accident from which he made what he...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1996

Handel Clori, Tirsi e Fileno - Italian Cantatas Vol 5

Volume 5 of La Risonanza’s complete edition of Handel’s Italian cantate con strumenti contains the extended cantata Cor fedele, in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2009

Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes are often referred to as a masterpiece and, by now, it ought to be easy to...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1997

Beethoven Syms 1-9

The first thing to be said about this set is that it sounds a good deal more comfortable than the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2001

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