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Beethoven String Quartets 9 & 12

With some of the earlier Kodaly Beethoven issues I've found the playing a bit too comfortable and bland, while enjoying...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2000

Knaifel Blazhenstva

Although he is by no means unrepresented on disc, Alexander Knaifel (65 this year) is rather less familiar than others...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2009

Reich Works 1965-1995

Nonesuch’s handsome annotation includes a highly amusing anecdote relating to a performance of Reich’s Four Organs. “A restlessness began to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Vivaldi Ottone in Villa

Vivaldi claimed to have written over 90 stage works, but he may have been exaggerating. What is undeniable is that,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1998

Bartók String Quartets Nos 1-6

Bartók's quartets are one of the great musical collision points between modernism and romanticism. How to handle the tension between...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2008

Byrd. Taverner Choral Works

These 28 singers from King’s College London have successfully tackled an ambitious polyphonic programme: Taverner’s monumental six-part Missa corona spinea...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Verdi Otello

Shakespeare’s lines about the Pontic and the Propontic come to mind. That juggernaut of a sentence, unstoppable as Othello says...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2010

A Paganini

On the strength of this disc alone Gidon Kremer could be ranked amongst the elite of world violinists, and I...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1986

Rachmaninov Preludes and Etudes

Edmund Battersby's approach to Rachmaninov is as sympathetic and intelligent as his booklet-notes suggest it will be. He has the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Henze Symphony No 8

The three pieces on this disc range across the majority of Henze’s mature career, from 1957 to 2005. Earliest is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2008

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