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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

This CD is the second release in a cycle of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. I did not enjoy it...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1989

Baroque Cello Illuminations

Anyone who finds Baroque instrumental music boring should listen to this! Angela East’s expertise and enthusiasm have long been familiar...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2009

Langgaard Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (versions I & II)

On comparing different versions of the Fourth Symphony (9/01)‚ I suggested Dausgaard’s may well prove the best if it combined...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Telemann Harmonischer Gotters-Dienst, Vol 1 - excs

It takes a brave company to launch a series of Telemann cantatas at the best of times but Toccata's ambitions...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2006

Handel Julius Caeser

I can only second the enthusiastic reception I gave this performance when it appeared on LP. The Handelian accomplishments of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989

Schumann Piano Works, Vol.11

The special interest of this eleventh volume in Demus's complete Schumann cycle is the six rarely heard Etuden fur Pedalflugel...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1991

Verdi La traviata (in English)

“That’s how to take it – splendid!” declares the chorus en masse with delightfully old-fashioned stiff upper lip. This recording...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

C.P.E. Bach: Flute Works

In reviewing the mammoth celebratory issue (of the bicentenary of C. P. E Bach's death) on the Capriccio label (10/88),...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1989

Handel Water Music

Handel’s celebrated music for George I’s barge party down the Thames from Whitehall Stairs to Chelsea has been traditionally arranged...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2011

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

This is, amazingly, the fifth Tristan to appear on Naxos but the first to offer a completely new digital recording....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2005

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