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Mozart String Quintets 3 & 4

The Locrian Ensemble offers polished, suave readings of these twin summits of the chamber repertory. Its uncomplicated approach works particularly...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2000

Golden Age of the Clarinet

With the aid of a magnifying-glass to enlarge the most microscopic print I have ever seen, it is possible to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1985

Strong Strange Strings

Elena Càsoli is a very good player of the battery of instruments she deploys, skilful in ‘collaborating’ with prepared tapes,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2003

Sweeter than Roses

We marvel at the range of Donne the poet, yet that of Purcell the musician is scarcely less remarkable and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet; Symphony no 6

‘A musical masterpiece,’ suggests Professor David Brown, writing about Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet ‘which is likely to remain...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2004

Rossini Semiramide

Semiramide is ideally an opera for the big night out rather than the cosy evening at home‚ but‚ as the...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Mussorgsky Songs

This set, unavailable on LP in this country for many years, is undoubtedly one of the all-time glories of the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989

O Maria Virgo - Las Huelgas, 1300

This recording presents an intriguing programme of particular interest to musicians and musicologists working in the field of early sacred...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/2008

Rochberg Symphony No 5

This is the second Naxos CD devoted to the music of George Rochberg to appear in less than a year,...

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

Médée furieuse

With Annette Dasch’s “Armida” (Sony, 12/07), Cyril Auvity’s “Orphée” (Zig Zag, 4/08) and now Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s “Médée furieuse”, we have...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2008

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