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Handel Messiah

This Messiah from Sir Colin Davis does away with the symphonic forces of his two previous versions. In the accompanying...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 2/2008

(Les) Ballets Russes Vol 2

Serge Diaghilev had the almost unique gift of discovering the doyens of early-20th-century composers before the rest of the world,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2008

Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Something of a nostalgia trip, this – returning to an English-language Bluebeard’s Castle. Many years ago I’d regularly engage with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2006

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Lieder 1850-1950

This is such an important collection that it seems a pity to begin with a reservation, but it’s a serious...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2000

Schubert String Quartets, D112 & D804

Major/minor contrasts are important in a large number of Schubert works, but it's tempting to describe the A minor Quartet...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1988

Schubert/Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas

In the first of Schubert's three violin sonatas of 1816, the violin and piano are deployed on equal terms and,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Dessau Einstein

Einstein is a mess of an opera, deeply flawed and unsatisfactory. It also has a curious fascination, and is undoubtedly...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1997

Schubert String Quartets, Vol. 1

This issue forms the first half of a planned complete Schubert cycle from the Auryn Quartet, who have chosen, for...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1997

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Something happened to Shostakovich between his dazzlingly gifted First Symphony and his masterly, equivocal Fifth and that 'something' was more...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1988

Monteverdi Complete Duets, Vol 1

It is indeed surprising (as Alan Curtis observes in the essay accompanying this disc) that no one had yet hit...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1998

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