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Review of Dyson Nebuchadnezzar; Woodland Suite

Dyson Nebuchadnezzar; Woodland Suite

It was bold of Dyson in 1934, when commissioned to write a choral work for the Three Choirs Festival, to...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2007

Review of Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Ambitiously, Barry Douglas tackled the Hammerklavier in his first offering for RCA as a Beethoven pianist (6/88), and here he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1994

Review of Harp Music of the Italian Renaissance

Harp Music of the Italian Renaissance

Trabaci is surely welcome back to the catalogue. As one of the leading precursors of Frescobaldi he has a significant...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1987

Review of Clementi Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

Clementi Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

Never one to wax lyrical about fellow composers, Italians especially, Mozart notoriously dismissed Muzio Clementi as “a mere mechanicus”, without...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2008

Review of Cherubini Mass No 1

Cherubini Mass No 1

No conductor is quite so persuasive an interpreter of Cherubini as Riccardo Muti. Starting in 1980 with the best-known of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2003

Review of Bartók Piano Music, Volume 2

Bartók Piano Music, Volume 2

It is perhaps inevitable that the recordings of Jenö Jandó‚ surely the most prolific of all pianists on disc‚ should...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Review of Hasse (The) Fiery Serpents in the Wilderness

Hasse (The) Fiery Serpents in the Wilderness

Johann Adolph Hasse enjoyed a long association with Venice and was buried in the quiet church of San Marcuola by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2007

Review of Brahms Chamber Works

Brahms Chamber Works

Complete sets of Brahms's string quartets over the years have naturally enough included several fine performances of the third and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1990

Review of David Oistrakh Artist of the People?

David Oistrakh Artist of the People?

Remarkable though it often is, Bruno Monsaingeon’s “David Oistrakh – Artist of the people?” lacks the one significant ingredient that...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Review of Mahler Symphony No 1

Mahler Symphony No 1

This is probably the best-played and most vividly engineered recording of Mahler’s First Symphony I’ve yet heard. The strings are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 2/2003


 

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