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Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Here we have a difficulty. Which to choose between three recommendable, yet very different interpretations? I certainly agree with RO's...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1985

100 Years of Italian Opera: 1800-1810

With three additional tracks, this is the volume which introduced the “100 Years of Italian Opera” series in 1983, welcomed...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Mozart & Beethoven Quintets for Piano & Wind

Mozart himself wrote enthusiastically to his father of his Quintet, K452: ''I myself consider it to be the best work...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1989

Coleridge-Taylor; Somervell Violin Concertos

This fifth volume in Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series – already a distinctive and valuable adornment to the catalogue –...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2005

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

As we reach the centenary year, Neeme Jarvi continues the Prokofievian odyssey on which he embarked in the mid-1980s with...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1991

Prokofiev/Hindemith/Walton String Quartets

I bought the Hindemith/Prokofiev coupling in the early 1950s and still possess it. Although numerous LP and CD accounts of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos, etc

Peter Donohoe's recording of Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto deservedly won the Gramophone Concerto Award in 1988. The work had been...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991

Mozart Chamber Works

The Beaux Arts Trio used to get three Mozart piano trios on to one LP (Nos. 1, 2, and 5—SAL3682,...

Reviewed in issue 6/1984

Mozart String Quartet 15 & String Quintet 5

The Lindsay’s policy of pairing Mozart quartets and quintets makes for very attractive programmes; here, the sombre D minor Quartet...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/1998

Neusidler Lute Works

Every new disc from Paul O’Dette is a special event, not least because he manages to heap revelation upon revelation...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2008

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