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18th Century Russian Music, Vol.1

Three CDs, available separately from Le Chant du Monde, offer a spectrum of Russian eighteenth-century music. The repertoire includes instrumental...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1988

Jolivet; Milhaud; Shostakovich Works for Flute

The flautist Emmanuel Pahud has here devised a delightful disc exploiting the distinctive combination of flute and clarinet, something evidently...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2005

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

As your Ring reviewer of long standing, you may think I tire of listening to this great masterpiece – but,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

Beethoven (The) Late Quartets

Late Beethoven is all about contrasts: prayer and play, structural logic and emotional candour, relative convention and daring. Wherever you...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2005

Mozart Divertimento; Duo

Divertimento? Hardly‚ according to the Leopold Trio. If a first movement of dramatic gesture‚ of marked switches between tension and...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

Vainberg String Quartets, Vol.11

Vainberg’s First Quartet, as recorded here, bears the odd opus number 2/141, and the date 1937-86. The explanation is that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1998

Dvorák/Smetana Orchestral Works

The Italian company Ermitage (not currently distributed in the UK) have already issued a live New World and Bartered bride...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1996

Budapest Quartet - Library of Congress Mozart Recordings (1940-45)

This brings together a series of fascinating recordings by the Budapest Quartet at its peak, made live at the Library...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1999

Mozart Orchestral Works

Yet another recruit to the rapidly increasing body of recordings of Mozart's most sumptuous serenade. It is a good, musicianly...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1988

Moeran Cello Concerto; Sinfonietta

Written at the end of the Second World War, Moeran's Cello Concerto is a dark, sombre work, in which the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

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