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La Rue Missa Ave Maria

Pierre de La Rue’s stature seems to me to grow with each new recording that appears. These two have much...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2006

Brahms Piano Concerto 2

Romeo and Juliet has not fared well of late: Riccardo Muti's version with the Philadelphia Orchestra is brilliantly vivid but...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1983

Beethoven & Mozart Piano-and-Wind Quintets

An embarras de richesses. Well, not wholly. The performance of the Mozart Piano and Wind Quintet by James Levine and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1987

Musical Banquet

Robert Dowland’s Musicall Banquet needs no introduction, except to remark on the irresistible challenge it poses for the singer –...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2008

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 and 27

The mantle of director/soloist sits uncomfortably on Mitsuko Uchida. The assured pianist isn’t the assured mastermind at the helm. Shared...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2011

Ginette Neveu & Josef Hassid

The three violinists featured on these two discs were all pupils of Carl Flesch (1873-1944), who also taught Szymon Goldberg,...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1992

Bach Transcriptions

And there’s not a single arrangement by Stokowski! A good thing, I’d say – especially as Stokowski’s own recordings of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2000

Thomas Moore Irish Melodies

If, as is often said, Moore did for Irish song what Burns did for Scottish, he brought to it (on...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Lutoslawski Orchestral Works

All three phases of Lutoslawski are here, with two of his finest orchestral works flanking a ‘transitional’ score whose historical...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1996

Monteverdi Madrigals, Book 4

Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals has had some very distinguished recordings, as befits one of the most influential and controversial...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2004

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