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Marenzio Il Nono Libro de Madrigali, 1599

Marenzio's Nono Libro di Madrigali is without doubt one of the great undiscovered treasures of the Italian madrigal repertory. The...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 1/2000

Tower Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman

Here is another fine disc from the conductor, orchestra and production team responsible for RCA's terrific collection of music by...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2000

Bruckner Symphony No 2

First a word about editions. Marcus Bosch uses the same edition chosen by Georg Tintner and Simone Young, namely the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2011

Mozart Symphonies Nos. 29, 31 & 33

Frans Bruggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century use period instruments, of course, but no one need think that...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1996

Chopin Scherzi & Impromptus

For his third DG disc, 22-year-old prize-winning Yundi Li returns to Chopin, performing music which won him standing ovations in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2004

Shostakovich Symphony 14; Marina Tsvetaeva Poems

Not for the first time is reappearance on CD a mixed blessing. With the singers that much closer to you...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987

Stanford Concerto for Cello

Extraordinary to think that such an appealing work as Stanford’s 1880 Cello Concerto should have been allowed to languish neglected...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011

Ashkenazy Duets

What an enticing programme, with Ashkenazy Sr joined by his son Vovka for an all-French repast. One of the most...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2010

Krommer Contemporaries of Mozart, Volume II

Franz Krommer is Frantisek Kramar, one of the most gifted of the Bohemians who made a career in Vienna in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994

Music for Violin and Cello

The Honegger, Martinu and Rivier pieces are not currently listed in the Gramophone Classical Catalogue, but these fine performances do...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

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