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Welsh Classical Favourites

The great Welsh vocal and choral heritage famously stretches way, way, back into the mists of medieval musical history. Only...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000

Hans Hotter Lieder recital

Hans Hotter celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year. To mark the occasion Preiser have issued this disc of Lieder...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana (in English)

From the first “O Lola, pretty one” to the last “They have killed neighbour Turiddu” we used to relish Cav...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Bernard Haitink’s 1966 Concertgebouw recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony had a fine slow movement and outer movements that were swift...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2007

Brahms/Schumann Piano Works

It was shortly after Schumann's breakdown in 1854 that Brahms, just 21, wrote his F sharp minor Variations, taking the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1994

Mozart Orchestral Works

At 73 minutes this CD is generous. It's also oddly compiled, with two early symphonies sharing the same tonic of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1989

Beethoven: Late Quartets

The Alban Berg are the first to give us all the late Beethoven quartets on CD. The Fitzwilliam Quartet on...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1985

Durante Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae; Vespro Breve

Durante was one of the very few early- to mid-eighteenth-century Neapolitan composers who turned his back on opera. None the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999

Bach Orchestral Suites

Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra celebrated their tenth anniversary last year and marked the event with birthday concerts...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1990

European Concert 2000 - 10th Anniversary in Berlin

In this tenth annual European concert, celebrating the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s foundation, the visual interest lies chiefly in the performers....

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

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