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Mozart: Works for Violin and Orchestra

Like the proverbial curate's egg, this issue is good in parts. For a start, the sound of the recording (made...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1989

Enescu/Schulhoff/Bartók Violin Works

This is a fabulous recital, the sort that suggests wet ink on the page and performances born more of impulse...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Allain When I'm Gone

These pieces reflect Richard Allain’s strong Christian faith. His burning desire to communicate his beliefs has resulted in music which...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2004

Psalms from St Paul's, Volume 6

It is an extraordinary effect when, after the familiar domestic procedures (switch on the power, place disc in player, press...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Dvorák: Complete Symphonies

During the analogue LP era Rafael Kubelik's highly distinguished LP set of the symphonies Dvorak symphonies tended to lie in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1988

Janácek & Kodály Choral Works

No cathedral choir in Britain or elsewhere has recorded such a varied repertoire with such uniform excellence. From Josquin to...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2000

Vives Bohemios

When Puccini wrote La boheme he had the advantage of two excellent librettists, with whom he had already worked on...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1995

Haydn The Creation

The search for a musically authentic Creation is almost as irrelevant as the corresponding theological arguments. Here is Christopher Hogwood...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1991

Mahler Symphony No 4

Here’s a familar contemporary dilemma. Pristine, expertly prepared, seemingly idiomatic Mahler which doesn’t quite hit the spot. Perhaps the composer’s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2008

Mozart Piano Sonatas

The authenticity of a fortepiano (a copy of an Anton Walter, 1795) for this music is not in question. Nor...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2008

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