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Mozart String Quartets

The Ysaye Quartet are an accomplished youngish ensemble founded ten years ago, and I was curious to see how they...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Delius Choral & Orchestral Works

No great composer of recent times has suffered such a curious fate as Frederick Delius. Beecham last conducted his music...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Stravinsky Pulcinella; Symphony in Three Movements

Boulez seems to “get” the Symphony, whether stamping (though never pounding) through the neanderthal opening or maintaining tension in that...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2010

French music for violin and orchestra

Kyung-Wha Chung's attractive and beautifully-played coupling of four shorter concertante pieces by French composers makes a valuable Compact Disc. Popular...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1986

Rouse Orchestral Works

It is high time we had a disc devoted to the music of Christopher Rouse (b.1949), one of the more...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Mahler Symphonies Nos 3 & 6; No 10 - Adagio

These are ‘historic recordings’, but you won’t have to listen through a sea of crackles to appreciate them. It is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Barber Orchestral Works

Isaac Stern’s 1964 recording of the Barber Violin Concerto with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic stands as a centrepiece...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1998

Berlioz Requiem

Colin Davis’s 1960 recording of L’enfance du Christ (Decca, 12/94) set a standard for a work that was then still...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2007

Viva Rossini

The first 50 years of this century were hardly a golden age of Rossini interpretation. Rather the reverse, in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Frankel Violin & Viola Concertos

The Violin Concerto, which made Benjamin Frankel’s name with the concert public when it was premiered in 1951 (he was...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1998

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