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Bruckner Works for String Quintet

How inconvenient. Having praised the Sonare Quartet and Vladimir Mendelssohn's Bruckner Quintet on Claves/Albany in I don't know how many...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991

Rosbaud conducts Bruckner & Mahler

These are wonderfully cleansing interpretations. Hans Rosbaud, a figure revered among budding conductors in the 1950s, not least Boulez, was,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

Lindberg; Sibelius Violin Concertos

It’s been said that Magnus Lindberg forges his works more from harmony and rhythm than from unfolding melodic lines, and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007

Mahler Lieder

I cannot imagine why Decca have taken five years to issue these fascinating performances. As in all her interpretations, Fassbaender...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1994

Golijov Youth without Youth

In Francis Ford Coppola's surreal fantasy Youth Without Youth - based on a novella by Romanian philosopher and religious historian...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 6/2008

Schobert Chamber Works

Not a great deal is known about Johann Schobert (1735-67) apart from the fact that he worked in the service...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 12/1992

Arnold Film Music

This very generously-filled disc provides a splendid cross-section of Malcolm Arnold's brilliant work as a composer of film-music. Not only...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1993

Bach Organ Works

Deutsche Grammophon's much-heralded 4D recording certainly makes itself felt here. This small Klais (17 stops distributed between two manuals and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1994

Strauss Four Last Songs

As the penultimate track on this often thrilling recital, Renée Fleming sings Strauss’s rethink of Zueignung, orchestrated in 1940 as...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 11/2008

Mozart Don Giovanni

By general consent, the performances of Don Giovanni in Sir Peter Hall's production at Glyndebourne in 1982 were considered profoundly...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1984

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