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Mozart Requiem; Coronation Mass

One of the first‚ if not the very first version of Mozart’s Requiem issued on CD‚ Peter Schreier’s reading was...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Bruckner Mass No. 3; Te Deum

Hot on the heels of the Gramophone Award-winning account of Schmidt’s Fourth Symphony (1/96) Franz Welser-Most has turned...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1996

Brahms & Schubert Lieder

The performance of the Schumann isn't really competitive. Hynninen and his partner adopt an ill-disciplined, unstable and subjective approach that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990

Schubert Impromptus & Moments Musicaux

Writing with superb authority, Alfred Brendel once answered his own rhetorical question. ‘What is piano playing of genius? Playing which...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Mozart Violin Sonatas Vols 7 and 8

This issue completes Cooper’s and Podger’s collected recordings of Mozart’s music for keyboard and violin. At first sight, Volumes 7...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2009

Schubert Lieder

Last year Margaret Price was happily and justly created a Dame of the British Empire. If for nothing else she...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1994

Donatoni: Chamber and Vocal Works

Donatoni makes a speciality of chamber pieces in which the players pursue and provoke each other. The sparks invariably fly,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1988

Boccherini (6) Quintets for Flute and Strings, Op 19

Boccherini’s output of quality chamber music is huge, almost all of it elegant and inventively melodic, most of it touched...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2008

Bach Cantatas Vol 23

Far from escaping to the country in the blazing heat of July 1724, Bach was committed to performing four cantatas...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2004

Lully Le Temple de la Paix

This very attractive release brings together two works written by Lully towards the end of his life. Idylle sur la...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1999

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