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Beethoven (The) Ruins of Athens

This would be more accurately entitled 'An Hour of Little-Known Beethoven including Two Minutes of Unknown Richard Strauss'. In 1924...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000

Purcell's London: English Consort Music

All this cheerful music was written in London in late Stewart times, the first three composers being foreigners who did...

Reviewed in issue 9/1984

Mozart/Haydn String Quartets

Expert as their playing is, the Brodsky seem less in tune with Haydn and Mozart than they did with Shostakovich...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1996

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3; Choral Fantasia

The CD version has arrived before the LP (not yet scheduled), an expensive offering even if the usual concern for...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1983

Schumann; Liszt; Prokofiev Piano Concertos

Few pianists can have both enchanted and enfuriated their audiences more than Samson Francois. Prodigiously gifted with limitless imagination and...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Mozart Requiem

Except for a newly sprightly “Benedictus”, Colin Davis’s live Mozart Requiem (actually a conflation of two separate Barbican performances) is...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2008

Britten The Turn of the Screw

Glyndebourne's first The Turn of the Screw divided opinion. At some points the staging delved deeper into the opera’s subconscious...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 8/2011

Mozart String Quartet 16 & String Quintet 3

Here’s a really fine performance of the great C major Quintet. The Lindsays take the first movement at a true...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/1997

The Grand Organ

The mantle of Sir George Thalben-Ball sits easily enough on the shoulders of his successor at Birmingham, Thomas Trotter. The...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Albrechtsberger; Mozart, L Trombone Concertos

The concertos by Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart are not what you might expect – transcriptions of horn concertos. According...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2004

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