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Schubert (Die) Winterreise

Ah, this journey! How many have made it, sincerely and imaginatively, two setting out as nearly as possible as one!...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2009

Boccherini Stabat Mater (original version)

Boccherini composed his Stabat mater in 1781, for soprano and strings, then rewrote it in 1800 for three voices, elaborating...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1991

Mozart: Complete Original Music for Flute - 3

Although Mozart described the flute as ''an instrument I cannot bear'' early in 1778 and just before composing his G...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1990

Wert Madrigals

As might be expected, this is an excellent recording with the Consort of Musicke in superb form and a well-balanced,...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/1989

Gounod Roméo et Juliette

Assuming for a moment (as perhaps one should not) that the reader does not have to be persuaded that the...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Grieg & Schumann Piano Concertos

Just because they have been so often recorded does not make these concertos any easier to interpret. And I don't...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Mozart Piano Sonatas

Though we've never been starved of recordings of Mozart's keyboard sonatas on modern instruments, it's only in the last 18...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1991

Masters of 20th Century A Cappella

In these five fiendishly difficult a cappella scores the Danish National Radio Chamber Choir displays outstanding virtuosity and dazzling singing...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1991

Sherlock Holmes meets Doctor Who Music for Brass & Saxophone Quartet

Neither the brief vignettes which make up the Sherlock Holmes suite, neatly contrived as they are, nor the Dr Who...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1999

Enescu Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Enescu’s Third Symphony, contemporaneous with the First World War, is a world unto itself, epic in scale, heavily though imaginatively...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

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