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Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol 2

Lovely to hear each of these four masterpieces granted its own unique personality. Try by way of an example the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007

George Lloyd Aubade and other music for Two Pianos

Here is an enticing programme of eclectic, always tuneful works, most attractively laid out for two pianos. The dream-like Aubade,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1997

Verdi Alzira

Orfeo have picked up the challenge of recording at least one of Verdi's early operas where Philips dropped it. Not...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1984

Barbirolli conducts Mozart and R Strauss

Because Sir John Barbirolli’s studio recording of Ein Heldenleben appeared posthumously, as Sir Thomas Beecham’s stereo remake had done, it...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2001

Menotti Violin Concertos; Cantatas

Gian­Carlo Menotti’s lyrical Violin Concerto of 1952‚ one of his most popular instrumental works‚ is here neatly coupled with première...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Plakidis Orchestral Works

Peteris Plakidis (b1947) was barely even a name to me before I encountered this beautifully recorded programme, set down in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2007

Villa-Lobos Piano Works

With so much Villa-Lobos piano music unrepresented in the catalogues—will no one please record the second Prole do bebe suite,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988

Mozart Quintets

The first thing that strikes one about this Mozart disc from America is the sound of the period string instruments...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Mahler Symphony No 9

In 1980, Karajan and the BPO made a memorable LP recording of the Ninth Symphony in excellent analogue sound (DG)....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1984

Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Sinfonia concertante, K297b

There is no shortage of this repertory in the catalogue, and least of all is this true in the bicentenary...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

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