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Campra Messe de Requiem

This Radio France recording was made, fittingly, in the Royal Chapel at Versailles Palace, the venue where André Campra served...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 8/2011

Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite; Danses concertantes

The Danses concertantes show Stravinsky at his most good-humoured, at his most genial, even, and it is good to have...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1985

Anthems from Salisbury

This record is sheer delight. The Salisbury Cathedral Choir have a most appealing quality which matches the character of the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Mozart Piano Concertos

Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat, K271, written for the Parisian virtuoso Mademoiselle Jeunehomme, contains many startlingly original features, of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

Lazarev attacks these virtuoso pieces with verve, not to mention also attacking his orchestra; the players respond to the challenge...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1994

Medtner; Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos No 1

To describe 26-year-old Yevgeny Sudbin as music’s brightest young star pianist is in a sense to do him a disservice....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2007

Bruckner Symphony No 3

Bruckner was adamant that this tidied and foreshortened 1889 version of his 1873 Third Symphony was the one conductors should...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2007

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker; Waltz & Polonaise

Here is yet another major new recording of The Nutcracker. Undoubtedly its great success stems a good deal from the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987

Rubbra String Quartet No.2

The first volume in the Maggini Quartet’s Rubbra cycle for Naxos launches in propitious fashion with a superbly integrated reading...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2010

Mahler Symphony No 5

Haitink takes up a stance on the Fifth which is the very antithesis of Dohnanyi's clean-cut and somewhat short-winded reading...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1989

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