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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
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
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
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
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 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’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
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
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
They’ve already dazzled us with ‘Copland the Modernist’ (RCA, 3/97); now Michael Tilson Thomas and his stunning San Francisco band...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2000
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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