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Bach/Zimmermann Works for Solo Strings

The ECM project of combining Thomas Demenga’s recordings of Bach’s suites with twentieth-century string music rolls on. I remain as...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1997

Reimann Lear

DG has waited for the comprehensive celebrations of Fischer-Dieskau’s 75th birthday to launch the CD release of Lear, an opera...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2000

Tragédiennes 2

Despite determined efforts by many musicians in France and elsewhere in the last 40 years, no French opera of the...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 10/2009

Mathias Orchestral Works

The untimely death of William Mathias in July 1992 (aged 57) robbed British music of one of its most natural...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2004

Mozart & Beethoven Symphonies

Here are two vivid reminders of Beecham's genius. The Mozart is large in scale, with tempos in the middle movements...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Haydn Paris Symphonies

Pulling no punches, Kristjan Järvi and his crack Viennese band perform Haydn’s six “Paris” Symphonies as if they were playing...

Reviewed by lvittes in issue: 12/2009

Brahms Piano Works

Born in Moscow in 1947, Valery Afanassiev now lives at Versailles. The booklet tells us that he has written a...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1993

Jacob, VG; Rathgeber - Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague

No published scores. All the music of Václav Gunther Jacob (1685-1734) and Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1759) is performed from manuscripts; and...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2010

Hassler Sacred Vocal Works

Hassler's Missa I super Dixit Maria, though far from representing the best of his work, is the perfect vehicle for...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Nielsen Symphonies, etc

With this issue Naxos complete their cycle of the Nielsen symphonies from the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Adrian...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1995

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