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Beethoven String Quartets Nos 10 and 11

In discussing an earlier issue from the Cleveland Quartet's Telarc series, coupling the B flat, Op. 18 No. 6 and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1994

Nielsen String Quartets, Vol 1

I wonder why quartets of international standing have not taken up the Nielsen quartets (or the Berwald or Stenhammar for...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1999

Mozart Mitridate, Re di Ponto

Despite temperamental singers and the obligatory backstage intrigues, Mitridate, premiered in Milan in 1770, was Mozart’s first great operatic triumph....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2007

Bach Transcribed Liszt

Liszt’s transcriptions come in many different guises. Whether paraphrasing operas, appropriating songs, or proselytizing great symphonic works, Liszt responded with...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 9/1997

Weill (Die) Dreigroschenoper

The eight­side selection from Die Dreigroschenoper‚ made by Telefunken in December 1930‚ was the first major recording of Weill’s music....

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Gazzaniga Stabat Mater; Gloria

Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743-1818) is remembered, in so far as he is at all, as the composer of the Don Giovanni...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1994

Mozart Piano Sonatas

You would hardly think that Mozart needs advocacy these days, but only four days before I wrote this review an...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1992

Ravel L'Enfant et les sortilèges

Whether or not—as the interestingly provocative (and well translated) note here maintains—beneath the surface fantasy and charm of L'enfant et...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1993

Handel Atalanta

This is a welcome issue, not only because Atalanta has never previously been recorded, but because almost all that is...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1986

Debussy and his World

Justly celebrated for his acute and illuminating writing on French music, Roger Nichols now gives us 'Debussy and his World',...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1999

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