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Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets Nos 7 and 8

We’ve reached the penultimate volume in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s cycle of 10 Naxos Quartets. Conceived as a tribute to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2007

Handel Water Music

On this CD the splendid sounds of the BPO can be enjoyed to the full. Helpfully, however, Muti does nod...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Schubert Symphony No. 9

The Gardiner issue sets itself rather apart, a live recording of the last two symphonies in lively, individual performances typical...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1989

Irmgard Seefried Recital

Any new recordings from Seefried are welcome, and these performances, deriving from two recitals in 1962, are full of rewarding...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2000

Music of Latin America

This, the start of a new series of discs (for which Eduardo Mata is Artistic Director) of Latin American music,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1993

Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri

Dieterich Buxtehude’s remarkable cycle of seven vocal concertos (short, condensed cantatas) sets a medieval Latin poem in both a mystical...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2007

Handel Concerti grossi, Op 6 Nos 10-12; Alexander's Feast

This last instalment of this group’s Op. 6 Concertos is as pleasurable as its predecessors (Chandos, 9/97 and 8/98), with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1998

Bruch and Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos

Gil Shaham, still in his teens, made this his first concerto recording in the summer and autumn of 1988, when...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Verdi Rigoletto

The main reason for issuing this DVD of a new production at Parma in 1987 must be Alfredo Kraus’s ageless...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Vol. 2

''A brilliant, fresh voice shot with laughter, not large but admirably projected, with enchanting high pianissimi.'' Walter Legge's description of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

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