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Brahms; Ligeti Horn Trios

The Danish Horn Trio are a warmly sympathetic Brahmsian team. But of course the horn dominates in the Brahms Trio‚...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Bruckner; Duruflé Requiems

Confession time: I have a near obsession with Requiems. Browsing through the shelves, any CD with the word “Requiem” on...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2009

Mahler Symphony No 3

''This is the first time I have ever heard Bernstein conduct Mahler, and I certainly hope that it will not...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1989

R. Strauss/Schumann Works for Horn

Ever since the late 1950s, recordings of the Richard Strauss horn concertos have been over-shadowed by the famous Dennis Brain...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988

Bach Italian Concerto

Don’t be taken aback by so much rubato because it is legitimate. The treatises of Diruta‚ Quantz‚ Mattheson and Walther...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

What is our Life?-Renaissance Laments and Elegies

This recording presents a selection of renaissance lamentations – a frequent theme in an age when premature mortality was far...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1996

Bruckner Mass in E minor; Motets

Hyperion long ago paid signal service to Bruckner’s mature settings of the Mass with recordings by Matthew Best’s Corydon Singers...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2007

Braga San Domenico di Guzman

This ‘mystic tale’ in oratorio form by Milhaud’s disciple, the Neapolitan composer Antonio Braga, was written about 30 years ago...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999

Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Piano Concerto No 27

“Mozart: The Last Concertos” runs the rubric on the CD booklet, though as a counter to any sentimental “swansong” associations,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008

Bach Passacaglia, BWV (five versions)

A thought-provoking attempt to prise open the most imposing work of the organ repertoire contrasts an urtyp account on a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

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