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Vaughan Williams Hymn Tunes

Early this century Percy Dearmer and Vaughan Williams entered into a literary and musical partnership, with a view to the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1989

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

There’s no question that the Trio Wanderer are a very classy ensemble. Their previous recordings of Ravel, Shostakovich, Schubert and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007

Most Sacred Banquet

Apparently indifferent to the possible existence of other St Thomas churches (wasn’t someone called Bach associated with one?), this choir...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

Vierne Complete Organ Syphonies, Vol 3

This CD is the last release in Priory's series devoted to Vierne's symphonies. The series has shown that it's not...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2000

Mozart Piano Sonatas

Born in 1940, Christoph Eschenbach established himself during the 1960s and made these recordings not long after: they show him...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Cui Chamber Works

Cesar Cui is best known as the least known of the Russian moguchaya kuchka, the 'mighty handful' of Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

Dowland Lachrimae (1604)

Did Dowland ever expect this collection to be played in its entirety, at one sitting? If so, in what order?...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1994

Strauss, R Orchestral Works, Vol 4

Terms like ‘unexaggerated’ and ‘balanced’ have been admiringly applied to the three previous volumes of David Zinman’s Zurich Strauss cycle,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2003

Shostakovich Complete Symphonies

Even longer in the making than Mariss Jansons’s EMI cycle, Vladimir Ashkenazy has finally completed his Decca series. Circumstances, venues...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2007

Haydn String Quartets, Op 71 Nos 1-3

These must be the least well known of Haydn’s later quartets, poorly represented over the years in recital programmes and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2005

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