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Mozart Cosi fan tutte

The return from Ostman's (L'Oiseau-Lyre) to Davis's Cosi brings a sense of landing on terra firma once again. The sensation...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1987

Beethoven Sonata No 15, 'Pastoral'; Schubert Sonata No 21

Much as I revere this wonderful pianist, I cannot in all honesty say these performances show her in the best...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2010

Vivaldi Sacred Choral Works

Vivaldi, as everyone knows, had the good fortune to be employed at one of Venice's four great girls' orphanages, the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1995

Arnell Symphonies Nos 1 & 6, 'The Anvil'

Dutton’s revelatory cycle of Richard Arnell’s symphonies reaches a fitting culmination with this highly stimulating anthology. It’s launched in arresting...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2009

Mendelssohn Psalms Nos 42, 98, 114, 115

The sense of déjà vu (or, more appropriately, déjà entendu) that often crops up when listening to Mendelssohn’s smaller-scale choral...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2009

Brahms 21 Hungarian Dances

Georges Pretre has been honorary guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1995 and he brings a touch...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

French Songs

One of the beauties of this satisfyingly planned recital is the readiness of both artists to resort to a genuine...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1985

Schütz Lukas-Passion

Since moving on from the Hilliard Ensemble to pastures new in the late 1980s, Paul Hillier has continued to produce...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2009

Bach Organ Works, Vol. 3

My welcome for the earlier discs in this mammoth series may have seemed a little lukewarm but any indifference is...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1993

Brian Symphony 3

Havergal Brian customarily wrote for very large orchestras. Although he lived to the age of 96 he never heard much...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

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