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White Hymns, Psalms and Lamentations

What an outstanding disc. It takes me back to the days of heated discussion (heated in English choral circles, certainly!)...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 3/2010

Bachiana Two

This is the second ‘Bachiana’ disc from Musica Antiqua Köln, a concept which draws its inspiration from Bach documents and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2003

Mitsuko Uchida live in Concert

Record companies seem slow to grasp that we don't always need recorded applause to convince us that we're listening to...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1993

Haas; Janácek String Quartets Nos 2

The catalogue is not short of recommendable versions of Janácek’s Intimate Letters Quartet. But there are any number of ways...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2006

Mahler Symphony No 7. Kindertotenlieder

Mahler's ''Song of the Night'', the most exotic, the least emotive, the outcast among the symphonies, brings out the best...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1991

Schmidt Chamber Works

I liked the earlier Marco Polo disc of the A major Quintet for clarinet, piano and strings (10/92) for the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1994

Works for String Orchestra

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, now 10 years old, has been described by no less than Rostropovich as ''one of the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Bruckner Symphony No 2

Like Karajan, Solti has turned rather late in the day to Bruckner's earliest symphonies; and on the evidence of this...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1993

Works for Cello and Orchestra

A valuable disc, and an enjoyable one. Miaskovsky's Cello Concerto has remained unjustly neglected by record companies since Rostropovich's 1956...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1992

Hartmann; Gade Organ Works

This disc brings together the organ music of, to quote from the booklet, ‘the dominant figures in Danish musical life...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2006

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