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Mozart: Chamber Works

This is a pleasing record, with musical and unpretentious performances of three Mozart works that appeal in very different ways....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1988

Shostakovich Symphony No 10

For those partial to his relatively sober interpretative manner, Kurt Sanderling is right up there in the dwindling line of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2004

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos. 5, 7 & 9

In this third instalment of their Shostakovich cycle, containing two of the largest-scale ‘symphonic’ quartets (Nos 5 and 9) and...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart Symphonies

Toscanini's attitude to Mozart was somewhat ambiguous. His treatment of the Jupiter Symphony is sometimes almost brutal, but exhilarating too,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Gluck Alceste

Alceste was the second of Gluck’s “reform” operas for Vienna, composed in 1767 and published with a preface in which...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2008

Haydn: Symphonies

These two discs offer in separate format four more from the Nimbus set of the complete Haydn ''London'' Symphonies which...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1990

Mozart Keyboard Works Vol 2

Mozart’s medical history convinced Dr Peter J Davies that he had “a chronic mood disturbance which was associated with pathological...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2011

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

For most younger collectors Toscanini, Furtwangler and Beecham are living legends but I venture to suggest that by their side...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1997

Paganini Caprices, Op. 1

It’s only in recent times that violinists have thought of presenting the Paganini Caprices as a set. Ricci was, indeed,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1996

Panufnik, R Choral Works

One might well ask whether there is a need for another recording of the Westminster Mass (I believe there are...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 3/2010

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