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Combattimenti!

The music of Monteverdi and Marazzoli is rarely heard in close proximity but the pieces chosen on this imaginative coupling...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/2011

Weill Symphonies

The Krakow Philharmonic under Roland Bader deliver generally efficient performances of both the Weill symphonies. However, the avoidance of merely...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1991

Tippett (A) Child Of Our Time

Four years after his Dresden version of A Child of Our Time, recorded live in the Semperoper (Profil, 3/08), Sir...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2008

Schumann Liederkreis, Op 39; Pfitzner (4) Songs, Op 32

As a Lieder interpreter Holl divides opinion. There are those who consider him one of the most profound artists in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2007

Saint-Saëns/Paray Orchestral and Choral Works

Until Daniel Barenboim's successful Chicago/Chartres recording of the mid-1970s (DG (CD) 415 847-2GGA, 4/87), the most striking American accounts of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Kabalevsky Cello Concertos; Violin and Piano Works

At first glance Kabalevsky's cello concertos seem to have many of the same expressive fingermarks as Prokofiev and Shostakovich without...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1994

French Piano Trios, Volume 1

There are nine available versions of Debussy's early and embarrassingly immature Trio including this new one – which says something...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

R. Strauss Don Quixote

Strauss asked his interpreters to play Salome and Elektra as if they were by Mendelssohn, Beecham, like Clemens Krauss, was...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1989

Mozart Complete Violin Concertos

What a good idea to include the violin concerto movements from the Haffner Serenade as a filler, rather than the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2000

Lassus Sacred Choral Works

Two aspects of Lassus come across with particular clarity here. First, as JM mentions in his helpful note, the clue...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1989

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