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Beethoven String Quartets

The Brandis Quartet recorded a number of Beethoven quartets in the mid-1980s including the E minor Rasumovsky, Op. 59 No....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1994

Wolf Lieder

This is the third Italienisches Liederbuch to appear in recent months. At mid-price it is, paradoxically at once a bargain...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1995

Koussevitzky Double-bass Recordings & Early Boston SO

The Boston Symphony have never sounded so richly sonorous or as imaginatively vital than they did during Koussevitzky's reign. Nowadays...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1994

Josquin Desprez Masses

Following their highly successful recording of Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua, The Tallis Scholars have returned to the undisputed master of...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1989

Curiale Awakening

Gates of Gold sets the hardy tale of Chinese immigration to California during the Gold Rush. It starts out like...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: /2000

Mravinsky conducts... (including free CD interview & rehearsal)

The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record, at least in...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Bach Cantatas

The last 18 months have been enlightening and sobering ones for listeners who have been collecting, in encouragingly plentiful numbers,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994

Hermann Film Music

There is much to savour here: the thrilling sense of spectacle engendered in the brazen Prelude to The Man Who...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Saygun Complete String Quartets

The CPO label has already given us five symphonies by Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-91), probably the premier Turkish composer of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2006

Liszt Piano Concertos, etc

As a teenager in the 1940s, Byron Janis studied with Horowitz for three years and has a sure technique and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

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