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Mozart Chamber Works

“I hope more [recordings] from the same group are on the way”, wrote the late Roger Fiske after enjoying the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1997

Guitar Recital

Fernandez's second record is aimed at a popular market even more than was his first (414 160-1DH, 9/85; (CD) 414...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1986

Bach St Matthew Passion (abridged)

With a dozen versions of the St Matthew Passion in the current catalogue, it is an eye-opener to go back...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

Lalande Grand Motets

At last there are signs that the French and, indeed the English, are doing something about the sacred music of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1990

Janácek The Excursions of Mr Broucek.

The issue of Frantisek Jilek's 1982 version of Mr Broucek on CD is a great pleasure. For many years the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1995

Haydn in Paris

Such was Haydn’s international prestige by the 1780s that in an age before copyright laws publishers were only too happy...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2009

Ravel Piano Works, Vol 1

The booklet­note to this recording consists of a touching homage from Valerie Tryon to her teacher Jacques Février‚ a close...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Elgar's Interpreters on Record, Volume 1

The great composers, we know, are for all time, but there is still something special about them in their own...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Nielsen Chamber Works

Nielsen composed two quartets and a string quintet during his student years, and then two more in relatively quick succession,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1993

Bach Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 2

The second volume of the Purcell Quartet’s complete Bach harpsichord concertos project contains, like the first (Chandos, 12/96), a mixture...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/1998

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