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Mozart Complete String Quartets

‘Played on a Matched Set of Stradivarius Instruments’, it says on the box, and indeed these performances are a model...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1999

Granados Goyescas

Hisako Hiseki's recording of Granados's bejewelled masterpiece evoking 'Latin passion and knavery' relinquishes biographical details in favour of two understandably...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2000

Handel In Rome

Handel’s Apollo e Dafne is a difficult work to put in context. Completed in Hanover in 1710 but possibly begun...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1996

Vivaldi Recorder Concertos

Vivaldi's concertos for the recorder cannot be counted, except perhaps by fipple flautists, as being among his most absorbing works;...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1989

Verhulst Symphoniy in E; Overtures

Schumann held Jan Verhulst in high regard, devoting several essays and reviews to his music and singling out for praise...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2004

Smetana String Quartets

It is 10 years since the Skampa Quartet from the Czech Republic appeared at Wigmore Hall to a rapturous reception,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2003

Monteverdi Vespers

The technical and interpretative problems of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 are legion. Should the entire volume be performed as...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 5/1985

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 1

I am not one to endorse the opinion that the late-Liszt style was one of a constantly high quality. Nor...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1987

(The) Da Vinci Code - OST

You can’t avoid it. Even the soundtrack has courted advance publicity. The British Board of Film Classification requested that Hans...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2006

Bach Cantatas, Vol 45

By 1726 new cantatas appeared sporadically, as Bach drew increasingly on the work of his contemporaries for Sunday worship. Quality,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2011

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