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Haydn - Music for Prince Esterhazy

Haydn’s patrons certainly had their idiosyncratic tastes in instruments. In the 1760s and early 1770s the composer turned out reams...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2009

Mozart String Quartets

This disc completes the Berg's latest survey of Mozart's ten mature quartets; and, like its predecessors, it leaves me with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1991

Shostakovich & Schnittke Violin and Piano Works

Clarity and truth were the words I used to describe the original Chandos sound, and here it strikes me as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1985

Camilleri Piano Works

Twenty-one (of 22) pieces in this recital invoke the celestial in either its astronomical or mystical aspects. As travel in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2000

Brahms Piano Quartets 1 & 3

In his Memoirs Rubinstein tells us that as a very young boy studying in Berlin, his first all-consuming passion was...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989

Schumann Piano Works

We are told that besides her concerts, this American pianist gives ''one-woman shows'' based on the lives of Clara Schumann...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1994

Rodrigo Conierto de Aranjuez

The titles of the sixteenth-century books of tablature by Cabezon and Henestrosa declare the music to be suitable for the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1999

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

It was an interesting idea to engage four of the world's top violinists each to play one of these delightful...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Bach Magnificat; Cantata No.80

Philippe Herreweghe continues his exploration of Bach's choral works with a performance of the Magnificat in its later, more usually...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991

Janácek Choral Works

Some of Janacek's most characteristic invention is to be found in the many choruses he wrote for local choirs who...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

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