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Vienna Première, Vol. 1

What a marvellous record this is! Receiving it now in CD format provides the chance to enjoy afresh the spirited...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1986

Concerti curiosi

It is hard to know which came first – title or concept – but it is clear that what we...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2011

Schubert Complete Violin and Piano Works

These performances, recorded between 1993 and 1995, are notable for polish, astute musicianship and expressive character. Both players favour full,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2011

Beethoven Orchestral Works

Three of Beethoven's most revolutionary works receive here performances that suggest something of the eclat terrible of war. The ardour...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Gershwin Orchestral Works

I agree with MH who reviewed the LP version that Mata does not so readily identify with the music of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1983

Beethoven Concertos

This is another excellent disc in the Tring/RPO Beethoven series (Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 were reviewed in 1/97)....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1997

Richard Meale Orchestral Works

Richard Meale (b. 1932) was for many years a standard-bearer of the Australian avant-garde. Over the last two decades or...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Renée Fleming Mozart arias

Two immediate reactions to the very first sound of the voice concerned identities. As in a waking dream I said...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Brahms Viola Sonatas; Songs

This is an unusual programme, but none the worse for being so. One unifying factor is, of course, the viola,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1994

(The) Dream of Herod

I don’t know what quality or style of singing is expected of ‘ye choirs of new Jerusalem’ but they could...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

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