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Bliss Choral and Orchestral Works

The new disc starts very well with a splendidly played and recorded Fanfare, followed by a moving and beautifully sung...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Giardini String Quartets, Op. 21 and Op. 25

Felice Giardini (1716-96), Turinese by birth, spent most of his career in London, where he played a large part in...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1997

Nielsen String Quartets, Vol. 1

While groups of international standing have taken the Grieg and Sibelius quartets into their repertoire, the four of Nielsen (like...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1998

Bach Mass in B minor

It was two-and-a-half years ago that Joshua Rifkin's Gramophone Award-winning version of Bach's B minor Mass was released on Nonesuch....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1985

Shostakovich/Vlijmen String Quartets

An illuminating coupling. The Shostakovich is not the most searing on disc, but few accounts so fully bring out the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1998

Eileen Ivers - Crossing the Bridge

I’m not quite sure how this fits into the review columns of Gramophone. Eileen Ivers is an American/Irish...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1999

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 16-18, Op 31 Nos 1-3

Paul Lewis launches his cycle of the 32 Beethoven sonatas with a triptych of richly varied middle-period masterpieces. A more...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2005

Rossini Petite messe solennelle

Though Rossini would have loved the Labeque sisters—how they would have graced and enlivened his famous samedi soirs in Paris...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1985

Mahler Symphony No 2

Jansons can usually be relied upon to present a sound musical case for anything he turns his hand to. He...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1990

Bruckner Symphony No 2

Budget-price Bruckner is something of a rarity in the record catalogues; super-budget Bruckner more or less unheard of. The reasons...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1997

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