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Britten String Quartets

As the Britten centenary approaches in 2013, more of his unheard youthful works will no doubt come into the open....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 13/2010

Schubert Symphony No 9

A new label, a newish period-instruments orchestra that has already done some exciting things under a variety of conductors, a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1988

Beethoven String Quartets, Op 18 Nos 3 & 6

When most issues of Beethoven Op 18 easily manage to fit three quartets onto a CD, it seems rather mean...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2002

Mozart Divertimento, K287. Serenade, K239

At once Tate's performance of K287 beats a different path from that of his rivals listed above, for he opens...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

This classic version, generally accepted as the most convincing and knowledgeable performance the work has yet received, has been available...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994

Telemann Musique de Table

In the August 1988 issue I found myself wondering what had prompted a flurry of activity amongst performers in turning...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1989

Canciones Españolas

Extremely low marks here for presentation: skimpy and inadequate summaries (some written with no sense of punctuation) instead of either...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1988

Weber Chamber Works

Apart from the Trio recorded here, Weber wrote only two pieces of concerted chamber music, the Piano Quartet and the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1991

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

It seemed that Chailly, Abbado and Stravinsky himself had between them more or less sewn up the ‘Pulcinella on record’...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Hallgrímsson Piano Works

A composer who was for many years a professional cellist, Haflii Hallgrímsson’s writing for piano is nothing if not idiomatic,...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2008

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