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Beethoven Symphony No 2; Brahms Symphony No 2

Another month, another in-house label from a leading orchestra. This is not the place to discuss the phenomenon itself –...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2005

Classic Trumpet Concertos

Whilst the Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos trip merrily off the tongues of modern players on gleaming silver (it seems...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Schumann Cello Concerto; Brahms Serenade No. 1

What I most enjoyed about this superbly engineered CD was the high level of musical interrelation that it more or...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2007

Bach/Telemann Works for Recorded & Strings

This is not a selection you will encounter on one CD all that often, simply because it places a pair...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999

Coates Orchestral Works

If Eric Coates scarcely needs the pioneering efforts of Marco Polo's British Light Music Series, the series would equally be...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1994

Marc-André Hamelin - It's all about the music

There are two ways of looking at this DVD – if you take my meaning. The first is as a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2007

Antonin Dvorák - Deo Gratias

‘Deo Gratias’ (‘Thanks be to God’), Dvorák’s final comment on his life, is an admirably direct and informative documentary, with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2005

Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Here is another invaluable addition to the series of live performances by Fischer-Dieskau from the Salzburg Festival, and one that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Holst Orchestral Works

An attractive Holst compendium, accorded first-rate sound. Both the St Paul's and Brook Green suites come off especially well here,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Brahms Rinaldo; Ellens Gesang II; Begräbnisgesang; Gesang der Parzen

Rinaldo was the closest Brahms ever came to composing an opera; the booklet-note writer goes so far as to describe...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2000

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