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Mozart Horn Concertos

Leading this batch is Munchinger's splendidly alive and stylish coupling of two Bach choral masterpieces, the Easter Oratorio and Magnificat....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2000

Alfred Brendel - 80th Birthday Tribute

The blurb on the back of Decca’s 80th-birthday tribute has a quote from Brendel: “I am delighted that these live...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2011

Baroque Orchestral Works

Its title ''Pachelbel: Canon And Gigue'' with such evidently minor composers as Handel and Haydn in small print below suggests...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1986

Schumann Works for Piano & Orchestra

Whereas the current CD catalogue lists over 60 versions of Schumann's Piano Concerto, there are to my knowledge only four...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1994

Curtis Chamber Works, Vol 1

Campion Cameo has already put out three CDs of Matthew Curtis’s orchestral music, of which I reviewed the third (12/06)....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/2007

Marcello Piano Sonatas

Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) was a mere eight years younger than his fellow Venetian Antonio Vivaldi and uses a similar musical...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2012

Martin Golgotha

Martin’s oratorio Golgotha has been well represented on CD recently despite its being a rarity in concert programmes. This splendid...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 5/2010

Schubert Winterreise

This is the first offering in a new Shostakovich integrale from Wales and it promises much. You feel the alertness...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

The Classical Catalogue is particularly rich in fine recordings of the Mendelssohn E minor Violin Concerto (one thinks of Kyung-Wha...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1991

Britten Song Cycles

When the Collins disc appeared, I praised particularly Langridge’s account of the Hardy cycle, Winter Words; here it is the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1997

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