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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41

This coupling stands high among bargain versions of these works. Both performances have characteristic vitality, and I was particularly impressed...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

Mozart Clarinet/Horn Quintets

Here are very acceptable performances of these works, technically assured and pleasingly musical. I don't detect, however, anything specially interesting...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1989

Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices

If it’s a chronicle of troubled egomaniacal genius you want, then Werner Herzog would appear to be the man for...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 4/2007

Rubbra Sacred Choral Works

Not a disc for one sitting, but there’s some powerful and characteristic music here. The Tenebrae responsories, brooding and intense,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/1998

Cutler Bartlebooth

A CV that includes head of composition at Birmingham Conservatoire and also co-director of the iconoclastic ensemble Nozferatu means that...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2008

Weissenberg Piano Works

The origins of this entertaining disc lie in Simon Mulligan’s encounter with Alexis Weissenberg in 1996 at the Fondazione per...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Rossini Semiramide

Semiramide is the last opera Rossini wrote for the Italian theatre. First heard at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1994

Pichl Symphonies

Vaclav Pichl (1741-1805) was a Bohemian who spent most of his career in the imperial service in Italy and Vienna;...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/2000

Fandango - Scarlatti in Iberia

Domenico Scarlatti’s genius as a harpsichordist and writer for the instrument has obscured the fact that there were other composers...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1999

Vainberg Symphonies Nos 14 and 18

The cycle of Vainberg’s symphonies coming out on Olympia here reaches Vol. 6 with Nos. 14 and 18. Both works...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996

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