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Evensong & Vespers

First, let’s have a little pedantry, though the point to be insisted upon is, I would have thought, important enough....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2003

Purcell (The) Fairy Queen

Pountney’s controversial staging of Purcell’s dramatic masque‚ or ‘semi­opera’‚ caused something of a furore when it first appeared at the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2001

Brahms Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata No 3; Paganini Variations

The most interesting items here for the collector are the three Brahms string quartets played by the Lener Quartet. Everything...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Palestrina Sacred Choral Works

It is something of a pleasure to be able to welcome this, although it was recorded nearly ten years ago....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1989

Rubinstein Remembered

Remembering the palmy days of RCA Red Seal, this two-disc DVD video and audio CD, part of the ‘Legendary Visions’...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Brahms Piano Works

The American pianist Julius Katchen made his name in the early 1950s and died in 1969, but although one thinks...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Rubinstein;Taneyev Piano Trios

Like so much of his estimable chamber music production, Sergey Taneyev’s D major Trio of 1907 is hard not to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2003

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

These performances on CD of Vivaldi's Four Seasons were recorded at the Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel in London. The sound...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1985

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 - 6

This filmed ‘cycle’ of symphonies does divide into thirds, though not the ones implied by the titling above. Nos 1,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 5/2006

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

The more one reviews and compares records, particularly operas, the more one comes to the conclusion that, among several, roughly...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1986

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