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Brahms Orchestral Works

Here are two vastly different performances of the same two works issued by Virgin Classics. Christoph Eschenbach has been Musical...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Petrassi Complete Concertos for Orchestra

Last year marked the birth centenaries of both Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi, and although there have been signs of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2005

Haydn Mass Nos 9, 'Heiligemesse'; Mass No 10, Missa in tempore belli'

This rounds off Gardiner’s excellent series for Philips covering the six late Masses, all supreme masterpieces, which Haydn wrote for...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

Verdi (La) Traviata

This is the Traviata famous for what it is not – it should have been ‘the Callas’. Any EMI recording...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Haydn The London Symphonies

When they first appeared on LP, between 1976 and 1982, Sir Colin Davis's recordings of Haydn's climactic ''London'' Symphonies drove...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1992

Shostakovich; Schnittke Piano Trios

The Kempf Trio is no more but this is a worthy souvenir of a fine ensemble. The big Shostakovich E...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2010

Beethoven Piano Sonatas 8, 14 & 23

Last September I expressed a strong preference for Barenboim's EMI Compact Disc over Ashkenazy, Brendel and Buchbinder. I am still...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Eshkeri Young Victoria OST

The music for this film owes its dues to the composers who were writing during Victoria’s long reign, as well...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 7/2009

Brahms Violin Sonatas

By a useful coincidence, just minutes before receiving this stimulating set of performances I had been listening to a glorious...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Hovhaness Orchestral Works

Yet more weirdly beguiling visions from this prolific composer. In the 1968 chamber symphony Mountains and Rivers without End, sliding...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994

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