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Borodin String Quartets 1 and 2; String Sextet in D minor

Borodin’s two string quartets have been coupled several times, and for long the most idiomatic versions were those made by...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2003

Four Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal

The oak barrel-vaulted great hall of Forde Abbey in Somerset provides a wonderfully clear yet sympathetic, resonant acoustic for this...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 9/2008

Scarlatti/Lotti Madrigals

In as much as Alessandro Scarlatti's music is known at all, it is the large-scale operas and the chamber cantatas...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/1991

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op 20

Let me say immediately that this new complete Swan Lake is thoroughly recommendable, and most enjoyable, both as a performance...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2003

Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos 4 - 6

You just know that this conductor lives and breathes opera. All three performances convey an unfailing sense of dramatic imperative;...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2007

Honneger Orchestral Works

Though seldom encountered in the concert-hall, the Honegger symphonies are decently represented on CD. There are complete cycles by Dutoit...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1993

Machaut Messe de Nostre Dame; Motet - Felix virgo

This is neither the first recording of Machaut’s most famous work to have been made in Rheims Cathedral, where the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2006

Leighton (The) World's Desire

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Leighton’s death, while next year will mark the 80th anniversary of his...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2008

Haydn/Ravel/Schubert String Quartets

The very concept of this programme – mixing different composers from different periods – poses something of a problem for...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Piazzolla Maria de Buenos Aries Operita

Maria de Buenos Aires is victim, lover, heroine and femme fatale, a powerful illusion given substance and pathos by the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

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