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Bortnyansky Sacred Concertos, Volume 6

The Russian State Symphonic Cappella under the energetic direction of Polyansky continue their traversal of Bortnyansky’s monumental production of sacred...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur

Issued previously on Laserdisc in 2000, this now reappears on DVD in the Opus Arte Scala Collection, in which it...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2005

Maw; Hoddinott; Searle Horn Concertos

This is a fascinating anthology comprising four vintage Argo/Decca offerings made between 1970 and 1974. All were originally sponsored by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2008

Boccherini Cello Quintets

Boccherini’s Op 42 – these are the ‘opuses’ he classified himself, not the different numbers used by his publishers –...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2003

Couperin Pieces de violes

Couperin’s two suites for bass viol and continuo from 1728 contain some of the finest music written for them. They...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 3/2008

Schubert Complete Lieder, Volume 36

Most of the material on this volume is not first-rate Schubert, but the performances certainly are; indeed, they’re superb, by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000

Beethoven Symphony No 9

Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony serve up a spiffy yet sober account of Beethoven’s Choral Symphony. Repeats in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2003

Mozart Orchestral works

The attractions of this disc relate entirely to the two Zimmermanns in the Sinfonia concertante. Though not of the same...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 5

'Op. 1' and 'Op. posth.' says a lot about Balakirev's two piano concertos. The First is a single movement only,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Weber Clarinet Quintet; Grand Duo Concertant; Variations on a theme of Silvana

In his note to this record‚ Pierre Barbier comments that the Grand duo concertant ‘can be understood as a concerto...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

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