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Bach Sacred Arias & Cantatas

These two eminent countertenors present Bach programmes from different perspectives. David Daniels is the ultimate in theatrical immediacy and a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2008

Bartók String Quartets

Both these reissued sets totally outclass their most recent digital rivals, and yet initial comparisons between the two reveal a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Mozart Violin Concertos

Despite the sleeve's proud boast— ''W. A. Mozart concertos for violin''—the authorship of these works is still very much in...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1987

Chopin Piano Concertos

Bruno Rigutto is a disciple of Samson Francois and since I missed his earlier Chopin recitals for Denon I approached...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994

Clarke, R Complete Choral Works

Born in Harrow (we read), died in New York; and between those events lay 95 years. It was a hard-fought...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003

Mozart Orchestral Works

Oh dear, what an extraordinary disc! Hermann Scherchen was justly renowned in his lifetime as a champion of contemporary music,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Music for Clarinet and Piano

The range of music that is increasingly available in recorded form gives us access to repertory that we sometimes did...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1992

Miecyslaw Horszowski - Piano Recital

If I was to single out only one disc from BBC Legends’ buried treasure it would surely be this recital...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2007

Haydn (The) Creation

Karajan occasionally conjured recordings out of thin air with no live precedent to work with (his classic 1954 Così fan...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2004

Heifetz/Barbirolli: The Pre-war HMV Recordings

Jascha Heifetz was primarily an RCA Victor artist, but the US company was in poor condition during the 1930s depression,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

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