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Haydn: Cello Concertos

Mischa Maisky, unlike the other cellists who offer the two best-known Haydn cello concertos in coupling, provides a substantial bonus...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Mozart Chamber Works

This issue offers a wide variety of styles, which is not to its advantage. The account of the Clarinet Quintet...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1991

Delius Mass of Life (A)

This classic mono recording of Delius’s Mass of Life, made in the winter of 1952-53, has been seriously neglected in...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Poulenc Mélodies

Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson gave this same programme of Poulenc melodies last year in Paris on the thirtieth anniversary...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1994

20th-Century Violin and Piano Works

Like so many of his contemporaries Bartok underwent a period of artistic self-examination immediately after the First World War. The...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Anderson Orchestral Works, Vol 2

Having launched its collected edition of Anderson’s orchestral music with such a first-rate programme (3/08), Naxos might reasonably have been...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008

Vivaldi The Four Seasons (Manchester Version)

This is only the second recording, as far as I know, to follow the manuscript parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1992

Karlowicz Symphony in E Minor, 'Rebirth'

By contrast with Dux’s previous efforts for the Karlowicz series, here the honours seem fairly even between the Polish players...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2009

Khatchaturian Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto

This first thing that struck me about this disc was Oliver Wazola’s fascinating booklet-note. It relates an extraordinary incident in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2004

Bellini (I) Puritani

This bounty from the archive would be welcome at any time but never more so than at the present. Glyndebourne’s...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2011

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