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Mahler Symphony No 9. Lieder

Here is a very special issue for admirers of a brand of music-making it has become fashionable to deprecate as...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Barraqué Complete Works 1950-68

The music of Jean Barraque (1928-73), a self-confessed romantic who sought to emulate the expressive scope of Beethoven through an...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1998

Bax & Elgar Violin Sonatas

Like Edward Greenfield, I greatly enjoyed Maxim Vengerov’s recent, red-blooded Teldec account of the Elgar Violin Sonata, the young Russian...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2001

Bruckner Symphony No 9

Günter Wand and Sir Reginald Goodall were distinguished musicians who were marginalised by the larger international community for the greater...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2006

Bentzon Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

It is seven years since Rodolpho Llambías recorded Sonatas Nos 3, 5 and 9 by the larger-than-life Dane: good but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2006

Ockeghem Masses

A few months ago I reviewed two very fine premiere recordings of Dufay’s Missa Sancti Anthonii de Padua (Archiv Produktion...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1997

Albinoni Concertos, Op. 5

Albinoni might be described as a specialist in the medium of the Concerto a cinque, of which he composed 54...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/2001

Adès; Beethoven; Mozart; Schubert Piano Works

Drama of diverse kinds might be an appropriate description here. The recording reflects the differences, too, because the sound varies...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2004

Dvorák & Bartók Cello Concertos

Both of these new versions of the Dvorak Cello Concerto have their individual strengths, but their principal claims for priority...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1992

Fauré Requiem; Messe basse

There are no challengers in sight yet to John Rutter's Conifer performance of the earlier, full seven-movement version of the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1987

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