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Rachmaninov Symphony No.2

Expertly played by the London Symphony Orchestra, wisely shaped and (unusually) observing the repeat of the first-movement exposition, this performance...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 8/2010

Italian Connection

If the Bell’ Arte Antiqua isn’t yet a household name with baroque music lovers, it soon could be. Lucy van...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2000

Mozart/Weber - Clarinet Quintets

Mozart's and Weber's Clarinet Quintets are quite often coupled on record, though they really have little to do with each...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000

Mary and Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey

Following the success in the Gramophone Awards of the Choir of New College, Oxford, this first-rate survey of old favourites...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2008

Concerti per l'orchestra di Dresda

If readers judge some of the pieces on this recording from Reinhard Goebel and Cologne Musica Antiqua to be a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1996

Honegger Jean d'arc au bucher

Apart from its multi-plicity of styles, which embrace polyphony, Gregorian chant, baroque dance and folk-song, Jeanne d'Arc is a curious...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/2000

Glazunov Orchestral Works

The clouds at the opening of Glazunov's Sixth Symphony soon disperse when an energetic allegro develops, and Yondani Butt's performance...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

Otto Klemperer conducts Beethoven

These Klemperer/Philharmonia recordings were made in 1955-6 and were replaced by the stereo performances which I reviewed in May when...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Tippett Concertos

Tippett's Triple Concerto, a work of enormous richness and musical satisfaction, is also one that presents formidable problems to performers...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/1983

Blumenlieder

This should win a prize in any flower show. Each of the blooms is a fine specimen and they have...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

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