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Beethoven Mass in C

Beethoven’s Mass in C, like Haydn’s late masterpieces and the Masses of Hummel, was written on commission from Prince Esterházy...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2004

M-A. Charpentier Sacred Choral works

Charpentier collectors beware! This is not a straight transfer from a single LP to CD but a compilation from two...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1985

Widor Chamber Music with piano

Yes, Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) did find some time in his long life to write other music besides the celebrated Toccata...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989

Barber/Bartók/Prokofiev/Webern Piano Works

Two big sonatas in the post-romantic tradition, framing two case studies in radical modernism: it takes piano-playing of a very...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Brahms Piano Concerto No 2

This performance, from a Royal Festival Hall concert, is powerful, direct and unassuming yet it is also the reverse of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2004

Bach Cantatas Nos 106, 118b & 198

Twenty years intervened between the composition of these deeply affecting funeral cantatas. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit dates from...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1991

David Stanhope - (A) Virtuoso Recital

David Stanhope is an Australian conductor, composer, horn-player and trombonist who claims he only occasionally finds time to practise the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2006

Haydn Symphonies Nos 22,78 and 82

Three strikingly contrasted symphonies here, with the C minor, No. 78, forming a tonal pivot between the C major L'ours...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1991

Richard Strauss: Tone Poems

As on LP I would firmly opt for this CD version of the three most popular Strauss symphonic poems, even...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1984

Franck/Indy Orchestral Works

I like the proportions of Dutoit's Franck—classical, slender, with a fine sense of forward movement and architecture. Here is a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1992

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