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Handel Fireworks Music; Concerti a due cori

A coupling of the Music for the Royal Fireworks with two of the so-called Concerti ''a due cori'' offers rousing...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1985

Great Conductors of the 20th Century – Albert Coates

The stylistic scope of these recent Great Conductors releases is tellingly exemplified by two key recordings of music from Wagner’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2003

Chopin Piano Works

In case any readers missed Aleksei Sultanov's Rachmaninov/Tchaikovsky concerto coupling on Teldec a couple of years ago (7/90), let me...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1992

Baroque Concertos

Compact disc seems to stress the unusual scoring in the Vivaldi G minor (there are recorders, oboes and a bassoon...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Mendelssohn Cello Works

Mendelssohn was incapable of composing without craftsmanship and good taste, and his two cello sonatas are skilful and elegant pieces....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1994

Schubert Symphonies

Visually arresting as it was, in the recent BBC TV investigation ''The Real Thing'', to see Boulez denouncing period performance...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1990

Haydn Seven Last Words

I suppose that, since the beginning of musical history, composers have been writing 'mood' music, that is music to create...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

J.C. Bach & Boccherini Cello Concertos

As the greatest cello virtuoso of his day and an accomplished composer, Boccherini unsurprisingly posed technical problems in this, the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Beethoven Symphony No 3. Grosse Fuge

Klemperer's 1961 stereo recording of the Eroica is a big, stolid performance, immensely imposing at its start and finish, and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1985

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1; Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

I’ve heard more arresting horns at the start of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, but the Leningrad trumpets clinch it. Gennady Rozhdest-vensky’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/2004

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