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Brixi Missa di Gloria

A prolific composer for the church in his native Prague, the short-lived Franti?ek Xaver Brixi (1732?71) was the most prominent...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2008

Verdi Otello

The great work and the great performance; and, crucially, both gain from the filming. At Covent Garden, Elijah Moshinsky’s production...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008

Weckmann Sacred Motets

Matthias Weckmann’s death in 1674 attracted widespread sorrow and end-of-era encomiums which rival those for Purcell 20 years later. Doubtless...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2010

Tchaikovsky Complete Symphonies

Mariss Jansons's outstanding Tchaikovsky series with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra makes a welcome appearance in this boxed set, confirming all...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

Evgeni Kissin - Piano Recital

I suspect there will still be some who have avoided buying Kissin's discs because of the hype surrounding his name....

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1993

Borodin; Smetana String Quartets

Smetana's First and Borodin's Second String Quartets have proved to make a good coupling before, and do so here in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1989

Rosenmüller Requiem; Motets

Even by 17th-century standards, Rosenmüller’s vocal output is substantial and borders regularly on the profoundly impressive. That much we can...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2003

Lully Phaëton

Marc Minkowski now adds the tragedie en musique, Phaeton, to a steadily growing discography of Lully's operas, to which William...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1994

Mozart; Smetana String Quartets

Smetana’s pain-wracked D minor Quartet is here given the wiry intensity and urgency it obviously demands but too rarely receives,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2008

Echoes of the Past

In the modern pantheon of trumpeters, Sergei Nakariakov has set his stall through exploiting his extraordinary facility in music by...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2003

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