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Mendelssohn Complete String Quartets, Vol 1

These fruits of Mendelssohn’s precocious maturity demand a fresh‚ enthusiastic response‚ and the Leipzig Quartet don’t disappoint. In passionate‚ intense...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Amsterdam Loecki Stardust Quartet - Fantazias

To draw most of the repertory for a recorder quartet disc from quintessential string music is a brave concept and...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Mozart Violin Sonatas

Despite the rapid encroachment of the fortepiano, the harpsichord remained the most common domestic keyboard instrument until the very end...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op 2 No 2, Op 27 No 2, Op 110 & 111

This succinct, magically fleet recital (Gulda’s first at the Salzburg Festival, given in 1964) comes, ironically, from an iconoclast who...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002

Enescu Orchestral Works, Vol. 6

Enescu follows Walt Whitman’s injunction to “sail for the deep waters only” in Vox maris, a work which the sixth...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Sento Amor

Curiously, the music on this disc is presented in reverse chronological order (Mozart, Gluck, Handel). Any slight reservations that one...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2000

Bach, J.C. Endimione

Endimione is a serenata or azione drammatica; J C Bach composed it in 1772 for concert performance at the King's...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Dame de Flors-Discantus

One is struck by the overwhelming majority of pieces in honour of the Virgin Mary in the extant sources of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1997

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

On this evidence, the arrival of Constantine Orbelian as Music Director of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the first American to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Schubert Lieder Recital

Hendricks and Lupu are not the first names that would spring to mind for a Schubertiade. And it is precisely...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1987

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