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Schubert Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

Schubert's symphonic slow movements seem on the whole to draw more from Muti than do Beethoven's, but then one would...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1989

Bellini Norma

At Parma in 2001 they had a creditable Norma; at Orange, on a wind-swept, genius-driven night in 1974, they had...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (original version)

Several reviewers, comparing LPs with the Compact Disc, have spoken of the effect of lifting a veil. Making for the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1984

Holst Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Though our modern age continues to extol The Planets as most archetypal of its composer, this recording of music written...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 2/2009

Cage Chamber Works

What a splendid idea to make a feature of Cage's percussion music from 1939-43! At this time he was a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1992

Prokofiev Symphony No 5; Lieutenant Kijé Suite

It’s a pity the conductor has not so far set down his interpretation of the Sixth, a symphony he champions...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2008

Les Pianos de la Nuit - Boris Berezovsky

For the greater part these DVDs represent a cornucopia of present day, brilliantly evolving glory. Let no-one say that true...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2004

Josquin Desprez Masses

This is absolutely superb. You need only compare the new performance of the Mass Pange lingua with the Ensemble Clement...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1987

The Russian Soul - Songs

It is well worth rising above the idiotic title of this record: here is a perfectly intelligent, interestingly varied recital...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Holzbauer Günther von Schwarzburg

“The music is incomparably fine”, wrote Mozart of Ignaz Holzbauer’s Gunther von Schwarzburg – and he was just about the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1996

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