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Dvorák Serenade Op. 44 : Myslivecek Octets Nos 1-3

With plenty of versions of Dvorak’s evergreen Serenade to choose from, Sabine Meyer enters a competitive arena. The players give...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1996

Chausson Concert, Op. 21

This is an affectionate and quite idiomatic performance. But the sound is by modern standards disappointing: immediacy and richness are...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1986

Rameau & Campra ballet music

Listening to these performances, recorded 27 years ago, is a disorientating experience. The orchestral playing is excellent—above all, rhythmically alive...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Mozart Masonic Music

Freemasonry and its beliefs and sense of a human brotherhood independent of birth or wealth played an important part in...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990

La Jeune France

“La Jeune France” were a group set up in 1936 by the three composers represented on this disc (along with...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1996

Mahler Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection'

An ideal recording of Mahler’s Second remains as elusive as ever. Chailly‚ though‚ is the first to offer Totenfeier –...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Couperin Harpsichord Suites

The fact that Louis Couperin, unlike his more famous nephew François, never had the words ‘Le Grand’ appended to his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2005

Chausson Songs

Debussy once wrote to Chausson and urged him to ‘lose your preoccupation with undertones’. This was several years before Chausson’s...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Mondonville Titon et L'Aurore

Mondonville was a younger contemporary of Rameau and Leclair. He was a gifted composer and versatile, too, being equally at...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

Thomas and the King - Original London Cast

When AE reviewed the original LP issue of this John Williams/James Harbert/Edward Anhalt collaboration in 1982, he made a none...

Reviewed by pford in issue: 9/1998

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