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Shostakovich String Qtet No 10.Weinberg Piano Quintet Op 18

Mikhail Kopelman was leader of the Borodin Quartet for 20 years, a period which included one of the better recorded...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2011

Gombert Sacred Choral Works

Nicolas Gombert is a notoriously under-recorded composer, but his few appearances in the CD catalogue are fully worthy of him....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1996

Popular Orchestral Works

In considering the various available recordings of Peter and the Wolf, inspite of a good modern Telarc/Conifer CD version by...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1989

Hüttenbrenner; Schubert Lieder

This is an unusual and wholly absorbing recital by a soprano often, mistakenly, considered no more than a singer with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2003

Josquin Desprez/Agricola Masses and Motets

The Mater Patris Mass is one of the very strangest works from the years around 1500. Based on a (pretty...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1994

Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

Poulenc is reported as saying that if he were still remembered in 50 years' time he hoped it would be...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1989

A Song from the East

The guitar now flourishes in eastern Europe and, as this recording makes clear, it has been doing so for longer...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1987

20th Century Swiss String Quartets

These DVDs testify that Monteverdi’s three surviving operas possess abundant dramatic richness. L’Orfeo, staged by Jacky Lautem and Jean-Claude Malgoire,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2005

Hindemith Organ Works

This disc positively sparkles! With such intelligent and innovative programming, it is the ideal introduction to Hindemith’s organ music. Since...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2009

Curtis, M Orchestral Works

Fortunately, melody is now coming back into fashion, so this collection of the light-hearted music of the Cumbrian composer Matthew...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2003

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