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Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart Music for Horn

This is a disc guaranteed to make the listener fall in love with the ripe, fruity, often tangy tone of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1999

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1

In Jirí Belohlávek’s previous disc of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto (Supraphon), he provided his fluent and poetic soloist Ivan Moravec...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2008

Kurtág Kafka Fragments

Kafka Fragments (1986) is the largest of György Kurtág’s song-cycles, and typical of this most inscrutable yet communicative living...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2009

Dvorák Cello Concerto; Symphonic Variations

Dutch firm Channel Classics has been stepping in where major internationals are being cautious – recording the central repertoire. Here...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007

Yu Qiang Dai sings Opera Arias

We are getting used to the idea that the best ‘Italian’ tenors may now come from Latin America; perhaps before...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2004

Bach St John Passion

This new recording of Bach's St John Passion from South Germany follows the version of the score which Bach first...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

We know that the Missa solemnis has moments of the utmost and loveliest serenity, others when a spirit of confidence...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

This remarkable two-disc album is far and away the most interesting recording I have heard in recent months. Scholarly, entertaining,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1992

Kyra Vayne, Volume 2

In her interview for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Kyra Vayne told of the home-visiting fortune-teller who, having made...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Jeu de Cartes

A lot of the qualities that you want in a performance of The Rite are here: crisp detailing, precise articulation,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1993

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