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Haydn Complete String Quartets

To have all this wonderful music packed into a single CD box less than two inches wide is to recall...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

La Casa del diavolo

The last movement of Gluck’s ballet Don Juan (1761), which the composer recycled 13 years later in Orphée et Eurydice,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2005

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Herbert Blomstedt has already given us impressive performances of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies (7/91), and the appearance of this...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1993

R. Strauss: Orchestral Works

If it's just Aus Italien you want, then Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic on Philips provide a marvellous performance, full...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Schumann Piano Works

It was only last October that I welcomed Andreas Haefliger's Davidsbundlertanze on Sony Classical as one of the most intuitively...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1993

Dickinson, P Apocalypse

Peter Dickinson and Philip Larkin make a surprisingly plausible pairing. The essential Englishness of their voices – Dickinson’s infused with...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2010

Montemezzi L'amore dei tre Re, etc

This is one of those afternoons chronicled in the recent book, Saturday afternoons at the old Met, by Paul Jackson...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Reizenstein Piano Works

A much respected figure in British music life of the 1950s and 1960s, Franz Reizenstein was equally accomplished as composer...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1990

W F Bach Sonatas for 2 Flutes

In these fascinating sonatas for two flutes Bach’s eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, upholds the family reputation for fluent counterpoint. Dating...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1999

Balakirev Islamey. Tchaikovsky The Seasons

This disc promises much, but ultimately delivers little. Yefim Bronfman is a pianist with bags of technique and a proven...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/1999

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