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Schubert Symphony No. 9

On this showing, the Saito Kinen Orchestra can rank with the world’s finest. Quite aside from their purely technical attributes...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Durey Songs

When asked if he had known the members of Les Six, Ned Rorem replied, ‘Yes, I knew all five of...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 1/2003

Mozart Wind Serenades and Divertimento

Ensemble Zefiro, a period instrument group, give careful, attentive readings of Mozart’s two big octet serenades. In each case the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1997

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

Karajan's Seasons transfers to CD with digital remastering which makes its ebullience and robust rusticity all the more compelling. As...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1988

Tudor Anthems

Alongside the high-octane professional choirs who have recorded so much sixteenth-century church music over the last decade, the Christ Church...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1990

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Roger Norrington's period instruments Ninth on EMI blazed a trail, exploring possibilities and setting precedents, that Christopher Hogwood drawing on...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Sarah Chang - Sweet Sorrow

This sort of compilation, I have to say, doesn’t appeal to me. To collect together music by similarity of mood...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1999

Charpentier Music for One & Two Voices

Harmonia Mundi continue their pioneering Charpentier project with a recital by Concerto Vocale of predominantly small-scalre Latin motets. All of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1985

Dvorák Symphony No 8; Sibelius Symphony No 2

Surprisingly, given his formidable Sibelian credentials, Beecham’s studio recording of the Second Symphony (from 1946-47, listed above) falls some way...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2004

Schumann Carnaval; Fantasiestücke; Papillons

This is Hamelin’s second Schumann recital for Hyperion. Once again, for the most part, there is a reassuring sense of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2006

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