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Dvorák Rusalka

It was not until 1987 that the Vienna State Opera presented Dvorák’s most successful opera, some 85 years after Mahler’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2004

Martinu Cello Sonatas

Martinu wrote a fair quantity of music for cello, but these three sonatas are undoubtedly the finest. Just how fine...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1989

Beethoven Symphony No 7; Mozart Symphony No 35

It is strange‚ as Lyndon Jenkins suggests in his illuminating note‚ that since Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony was probably Barbirolli’s favourite...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

(The) Eternal - Variations on Joy Divisons

The gentrification of rock music perhaps became inevitable as soon as the supposed passing fad of 1950s rock'n'roll turned out...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 12/1999

Schubert Piano Music

Lasting just on 67 minutes, this coupling is not only generous in playing time but also very apt: all the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986

Mozart Edition, Vol.30

Mozart must have cursed Mitridate. Thanks to its success, he was landed with two more commissions for Milan, one of...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1992

Falla Ballet & Orchestral Works

Falla's genial stage piece The Three-cornered hat started life as a mimed farce called The Corregidor and the Miller's Wife....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Mozart Piano Concertos 12 & 14

One's first impression of this record is of a rich tonal palette, and the second is that it is by...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1989

Caplet Le miroir de Jésus

In May 1924, against stiff competition from Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Poulenc’s Les biches, Le miroir...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2000

Bach Brandenburg Concertos

The brisk tempos Bach is said to have liked are certainly forthcoming from I Musici, first past the post in...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1985

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