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Janacek String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

The Diotima Quartet claim the first recording of the new Bärenreiter edition (not yet published, to my knowledge) of Janácek’s...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2009

Masterpieces of the Renaissance, Volume II

This is an intelligently thought-out anthology of music by Lassus centring on his powerful Missa “Tous les regrets”, built on...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Handel Italian Solo Cantatas and Instrumental Works

This is a welcome disc of four chamber cantatas by Handel none of which I can recall having previously heard...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1991

Hotteterre Ecos Fidelles

Single-composer discs are the thing these days, thanks mainly to the marketing fraternity’s insistence that they sell more easily because...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/1997

Brahms Orchestral Works

In September I was able to welcome Janowski's performance of Brahms's First Symphony on ASV's super-bargain Quicksilva label, and his...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Dvorák Symphony No.9; 3 Slavonic Dances

This is the first account of Dvorak's New World to exceed the 50-minute barrier, and that statistic is the more...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1989

Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

Even in 1957, when it was first issued, this was an old-fashioned performance. Only, it seems to me, the most...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1995

Nielsen Maskarade

Eighty-two years on and still no professional staging in Britain for this freshest, wisest, most ebullient and humane of twentieth-century...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

Mozart: Early Symphonies

These three symphonies, all very early, come as a necessary supplement to Christopher Hogwood's formidable set of the complete Mozart...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1987

Oskar Fried conducts the BPO

Before settling into a career as a brilliant conductor, Oskar Fried (1871–1941) tried his hand at painting, composing, dog training...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

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