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Sweelinck Psalms of David

Although it is for his keyboard music that Sweelinck is remembered today, it's a curious fact (pointed out by Richard...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1992

Orchestral Works

An outstanding disc offering what is surely an ideally chosen triptych. Bizet was four days past his 17th birthday when...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1989

Organ Music from Chester Cathedral

Most British cathedral organs are large romantic instruments but with a remarkable versatility, and Derrett’s enterprising programme exploits all the...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/1998

Previn Brief Encounter

Any new operatic adaptation of Brief Encounter can’t help but face barriers, sociological and otherwise. The classic 1945 film about...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 8/2011

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Performances of Beethoven's first two piano concertos on a fortepiano with a small orchestra of period instruments require the listener...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989

Verbier Festival Piano Extravaganza

Capuçon, Chang, Gringolts, Kremer, Repin, Sitkovetsky, Tetzlaff, Znaider… those are just the violinists who turned up to form part of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2004

Verdi (Il) Trovatore

Never available before, this marvellous performance marked Karajan’s long-awaited return to the Vienna State Opera in 1978. It was also...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005

A Tribute to Gerald Moore

Apart from the more obvious respects in which this is a unique and moving disc, it is the only one...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Beethoven Septet, Op 20; Sextet, Op 81b

The only other currently available coupling of these works comes from members of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet on Philips, a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1992

Mozart Serenades

Good as Levine's performances are of these two favourite serenades, I certainly prefer Mackerras's which are consistently more elegant with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1985

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