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Shostakovich Symphony No.7

There was a time when sneering remarks about the Leningrad Symphony were de rigueur—when the in joke was Ernest Newman's...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1988

Haydn London Symphonies, Volume 3

This is the third instalment in Leonard Slatkin’s series of Haydn’s “London” Symphonies (the first was reviewed in 2/95), again...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997

Pichl Symphonies

Wenzel Pichel (1741-1805)—or, to use the name he was born with, Vaclav Pichl—was one of the most prolific composers of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1994

Couperin: Chamber & Orchestral Works

Modern ensembles have always tended to shy away from the French baroque repertory—Lully, Couperin and Rameau for example—because of its...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

''Der Mensch hat so eine Stimme'' (''The man has a tone of voice'') says Rocco of Florestan, and it's always...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

Great Virtuosi of the Harpsichord, Vol 2

Kirkpatrick’s name is so closely associated with his classic book on Scarlatti and his recordings of Bach that it pulls...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996

Merkel Complete Organ Sonatas, Volume 1

Generations of British organists will know of Gustav Merkel through the countless collections of very short and simple organ music...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1997

Mendelssohn String Quintets

“The most precociously gifted composer the world has ever known.” Annotator Julian Haylock justifiably celebrates a musical talent “which was...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Lassus Lagrime di San Pietro

Lassus completed his swan-song days before his death on June 14th, 1594. The decision to set 20 stanzas from Luigi...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1994

Bach Sonatas and Partitas, BWV1001-06

With these impressive performances (on her beautiful-toned Amati) of the Solo Sonatas and Partitas Monica Huggett sweeps other baroque interpretations...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1998

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