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Brahms Symphonies

Karajan recorded three Brahms symphony cycles for DG. The performances listed above come from his second series, which was recorded...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

MacFarren Robin Hood

Sir George Macfarren (1813‑87) was something of a musical polymath. Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music, he eventually...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2012

Hartmann Concerto funebre

When Karl Amadeus Hartmann opted for internal exile during the Nazi era, he took with him some key influences from...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2000

Handel Judas Maccabaeus

The modern period-performance style is not altogether appropriate for Judas Maccabaeus: which is to say, rather, that its practitioners have...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1994

Cherubini Ali-Baba

''One of the feeblest things Cherubini ever wrote.'' That was the verdict of Berlioz on Ali Baba's Paris premiere in...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Handel Concerti Grossi

Handel’s Opus 3 was published in 1734 by the London music-seller John Walsh, who probably exercised a lot of unauthorised...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2010

Artur Rubinstein piano recital

I am aware that older readers may consider it to be superfluous for me to extol Rubinstein's genius as an...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1987

Bach Magnificat

King’s has recorded the Magnificat under a succession of musical directors, and it could be said that each reflects as...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2000

Verdi Aida

The black-and-white picture is often fuzzy, the camera angles primitive, the production values antiquated, but here is a precious document...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 2/2008

Lyell Cresswell Orchestral Works, Vol.1

In Macbeth, Shakespeare provides a stark description of social despair and instability, ''where violent sorrow seems/A modern ecstasy''. This is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1992

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