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Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 2

One of the greatest moments in the classical repertoire occurs 31 bars into the slow movement of Beethoven’s late A...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2006

Works by Antal Dorati

With the mice born of the mountainous labours of some other conductor-composers in mind, one can pay Dorati the compliment...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Bach Feast of the Purification of Mary

The latest recording in Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage celebrates works written for the Feast of the Purification which falls on...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2000

Lamenta

Turn down the lights and get out your joss-sticks for this one: a selection of sixteenth-century Tenebrae music for Holy...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1998

Connesson Cosmic Trilogy

There’s a new generation of French composers we know little about on this side of the channel, names like Bacri,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2010

Richard Lewis sings Handel Arias & Folksongs

It’s a pity: we never celebrated Richard Lewis in his lifetime, and if it is true that during his last...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Britten Orchestral Works

This is an attractive Britten programme, extremely well performed by these Montreal players under Yuli Turovsky. The recording, too, is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Beethoven String Quartets

As the note puts it, ''the Borodin Quartet is not four different instruments, it is one instrument with sixteen strings''....

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Bach Bach Album (A)

Timothy Roberts’ artistic guidance of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts deserves top plaudits here. Sit back and imagine the elderly...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Britten: Cello Works

The Britten and Shostakovich sonatas make such an instructive coupling that it's surprising no one has attempted it on record...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989

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