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Mahler Symphony No 4

As with the First Symphony, a previous instalment in the San Francisco Symphony’s Mahler cycle (2/03), the glory of this...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 7/2004

Almost a Song - Contemporary Guitar

At the age of 40 Olivier Chassain is not yet a household name on the British side of La Manche,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1998

Mozart Complete String Quintets, Vol 1

It is good to see CRD (which has been remastering a number of enticing reissues in the past couple of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

Chopin; Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas

Chopin’s and Rachmaninov’s sonatas have not all that often been coupled on record, though they make good if demanding partners....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2007

R Strauss Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Metamorphosen

Jeffrey Tate is up against some formidable memories in tackling Strauss's Le bourgeois gentilhomme suite. Can he possibly match Beecham's...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Bach Orchestral Works

The set of six Brandenburg Concertos contained on these two separately available mid-price discs is Nikolaus Harnoncourt's later recording, made...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992

Beethoven: Fidelio

Whilst I cannot in all honesty put my hand on my heart and say that this will be the Grieg...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1991

Haydn Heiligmesse & Nikolaimesse

This new recording of the so-called Heiligmesse, rounding off Richard Hickox's survey of Haydn's late Masses, fully lives up to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2000

Animal Parade

How many who pass by Brentwood in Essex on their daily commute to work in London know that it boasts...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/2011

Rachmaninov Choral Works

A coupling of Rachmaninov's Spring cantata with The bells is a happy idea and these are enjoyably communicative, if not...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1992

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