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Korngold Complete Songs, Vol 1

It’s good to welcome the first issue in this new series of the complete songs of Korngold which, aside from...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2011

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Bilson’s is not the first disc to highlight the close affinity between Schubert’s A minor Piano Sonata, composed in March...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Tchaikovsky String Quartets Nos 1 - 3; Souvenir de Florence

For some years, my touchstone for the Tchaikovsky quartets has been the 1993 Borodin Quartet recordings (Teldec, 1/94 – nla),...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2010

Carter Chamber Works

There is a 47-year time-span for the compositions on this hugely rewarding disc, and comparison of the earliest and most...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998

Michael Haydn String Quintets

It is often supposed that the string quintet as a genre was created by Mozart, but in fact there are...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

The darling of the Promenaders during the 1960s, Sargent produced relatively few records by the side of Beecham, Barbirolli or...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990

Dauvergne Les Troqueurs

The appearance on disc of Antoine Dauvergne's opera-bouffon of 1753, Les Troqueurs is at once a happy occasion and a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1994

Mozart Chamber Works

Graceful, fluent music-making from these expert performers, all but one of whom are members of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra....

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Bellini Norma

Certain experiences warm the heart of a veteran reviewer, keeping his enthusiasm alive – and the first official issue of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2003

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2, 'Lobgesang'

With this sixth volume, Thomas Fey and the Heidelberg SO complete their cycle of all Mendelssohn’s symphonies (including the early...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2010

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