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Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4; Violin Concerto

This is the best so far issued of the Bryden Thomson cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies. As an interpretation,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Gershwin Porgy & Bess

Here is something I never expected to hear – one of the most significant 20th-century opera productions, caught live and...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 8/2008

McEwen String Quartets, Vol 3

The Chilingirians’ trail-blazing survey of the 19 string quartets by Hawick-born Sir John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) goes from strength to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2004

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

I know of no work so certain to raise the spirits than Die Jahreszeiten (''The Seasons'') unless it be the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1990

Mahler Symphony No 9

Leonard Bernstein is working his way through the Mahler symphonies for the second time for DG and with orchestras from...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Mozart/Tchaikovsky Music for Strings

Seiji Ozawa has been the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 21 years, but his association with the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1994

Ives/Ruggles/Seeger Orchestral Works

I welcomed the Cleveland/Dohnanyi Ives Symphony No. 4 coupled with Varese's Ameriques (Decca, 11/94). The same policy of linking Ives...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1995

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

When this set first appeared Andrew Porter wrote one of the longest reviews of a single opera ever to appear...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1988

Bach Mass in B minor

In a short interview before this concert in Notre-Dame Cathedral, John Nelson calls this performance “a culmination of my experience...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2007

Capriccio stravagante, Volume 1

For baroque string players, the Italian solo and chamber repertoire of the first half of the 17th century – when...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2001

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