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Haydn (The) Seasons

Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s new Seasons trumps his 1987 recording (Apex, 4/87R) on virtually every count. The conductor’s affection for the spirit...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2009

Bach Cantata Nos. 211 and 212

These are lively performances of Bach's Coffee and Peasant Cantatas. Emma Kirkby and David Thomas make up a vital partnership...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1987

Tomorrow Never Dies Original Soundtrack

At last, the producers of the James Bond series have found a composer who understands the relationship between the films...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1

Here‚ in the first of two records devoted to the Brahms Piano Concertos‚ is Schnabel in all his idiosyncrasy and...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

(The) Shadow Side: Contemporary song from Scotland

That the range of recent Scottish song is a wide one can hardly be doubted on hearing this disc from...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 10/2011

Shostakovich String Quartets

When the first issue in the Borodin Quartet's latest Shostakovich cycle for Virgin Classics appeared (12/91) I was not convinced...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Shostakovich Piano Trios; Symphony No. 15

Recordings of Shostakovich’s piano trios have proliferated in recent years. Relating to Rachmaninov as surely as his early piano trio...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 3/2008

Webern: Songs

Less than half the songs in this almost complete edition (only a couple of early pieces written specially for bass...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1986

Rossini Stabat Mater

Why is Rossini’s Stabat mater so difficult a work to bring off with anything approaching complete success? Is it something...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1997

Bach Cantatas, Vol 48

Dating cantatas from Bach’s later years remains an indeterminate business, not least because their creation played a rather more occasional...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2011

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