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Mondonville (6) Sonates en symphonies, Op. 3

Recent interest in the music of Mondonville has been remarkably high. Christophe Rousset’s recording of the opera-ballet, Les fetes de...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/1998

Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love

With characteristic frankness and a touch of self­mockery‚ Vaughan Williams in his introduction to the score of Sir John in...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

DRG

These recordings are far from new, having first visited us on the Everest label, and having subsequently appeared briefly on...

Reviewed in issue 12/1983

Mozart Thamos, König in Agypten

Mozart's choruses and entr'actes for the Gebler play, Thamos, Konig in Aegypten, his sole incidental dramatic music, are much less...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1994

Britten: Orchestral Works

Here is another of Simon Rattle's forays into relatively uncharted Britten territory, excepting the familiar early masterpiece, Sinfonia da requiem,...

Reviewed in issue 6/1986

Myaskovsky Orchestral Works

There have been several recent recordings of Myaskovsky's epic Sixth Symphony, and his nostalgic Cello Concerto is regularly revisited, but...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2007

Brahms Complete Sonatas for Violin and Viola

If you love Brahms primarily for his Romanticism, for his expressive harmonies and soaring melodies, then these recordings could be...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2005

Favourite Cello Concertos

A first-class package in every way. As we know from his live performances, Julian Lloyd Webber has a firm, richly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1999

R. Strauss Choral Songs

These marvellous pieces must be the very devil to sing. Many of our readers will have been introduced to them...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Mozart; Salieri; Righini Arie di Bravura

Diana Damrau first made her mark as a sensational Queen of the Night – a part she has just relinquished...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2008

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