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Schubert String Quartets Nos 10 & 14

For once the encomiums on the jewel-case are largely justified. The Henschel Quartet may be slightly too ready to relax...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999

Purcell (The) Fairy Queen

How revealing it is to read the modus operandus of a period ensemble in the biography-cum-statement of an accompanying booklet....

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1994

Ferrabosco Consort Music

Under the single name, Alfonso, lie two composers, father and son. The strongest bond between them must have been composing;...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2003

Anthony Jennings - Fantastic Musick for the Italian Harpsichord

Well, not quite fantastic enough really. It is nice to hear a fruity Italian harpsichord in such a varied and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999

Nielsen Symphony No.4

Karajan and the BPO have the field to themselves so far as the CD catalogue is concerned and there is...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1984

Graziella Sciutti Arias & Mélodies

At what must have been one of her last appearances in London, at the Wigmore Hall in March 1982, Sciutti...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1996

Beethoven Symphony No 3

Re-hearing Haitink's latest account of the Eroica does not tempt me to jettison my impression that this is a cultured,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989

Ikon 2

It is 13 years since the Holst Singers and Stephen Layton released “Ikon” (8/97), placing pre-Revolution Russian sacred works alongside...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2010

Smetana Orchestral Works

Geoffrey Simon and the LSO give splendidly exuberant performances of The bartered bride pieces, but the interest of this record...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1986

Shostakovich plays Shostakovich, Volume 1

Here is an inspiring collection, with more of Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue performances than have ever been brought together on...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

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