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Haydn London Symphonies, Volume 1

The strength of these performances lies in Richard Hickox’s energy, his spruce rhythms and sensibly chosen tempos. Only the first...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2000

Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet

This CD opens with the spine­tingling sound of a Mongolian Long Song‚ a term referring to the long­limbed nature of...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Shostakovich Symphony No 5; Romances on Japanese Poems

Tadaaki Otaka recorded a distinguished Rachmaninov cycle for Nimbus some years back (5/92 and 4/93) and there is little to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Vol 3

This third disc concludes Ibragimova and Tiberghien’s live set of the Beethoven sonatas. The qualities of the earlier instalments (8/10,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2011

Schütz Ich hebe meine Augen auf

In 17th-century Dresden, musical instruments were required to remain silent at the court chapel during Holy Week, so the voices...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2011

C P E Bach Keyboard & Flute Sonatas

The ‘Sonatas’ on this disc are, in fact Trios for unspecified instruments, though it is likely that C. P. E....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1999

Puccini Tosca

This is the soundtrack of the widely seen and pretty widely admired Andrea Andermann film of Tosca, performed not only...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1997

Schubert Epilog

If you take the line that Schubert stands for things in music which most composers active since 1950 have, regrettably,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2005

Maxwell Davies Job

Although an oratorio on the subject of Job might seem an unlikely undertaking for a composer in 1997 it is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1997

Antheil Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Some of this is hilarious 1920s music. George Antheil, the self-styled ‘bad boy of music’ – another American in Paris...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2006

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