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Bach English Suites

It is something of a mystery why Bach, usually alive to opportunities to make known his mastery of various musical...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1994

Britten Choral Works

The approaching procession in A Ceremony of Carols, vividly effective, sets the tone of confidence which rings through the performance....

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Haydn Symphonies Nos 101 & 104

This pairing of Haydn's last, and most imposing, D major symphonies has many of the positive features of Mackerras's Mozart...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1993

Ligeti Volume 7

In common with previous volumes in the series, this issue presents music from the 1950s and 1960s (Ten Pieces, Bagatelles)...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/1998

José Carreras - Belle Époque

Jose Carreras singing Zemlinsky, Schreker and Elgar – not something one might have predicted. On listening, however, not many people...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 1/2008

Donizetti Linda Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix came towards the end of Donizetti’s composing career. It was first performed in May 1842 at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2011

Busoni (Die) Brautwahl

Busoni’s first mature opera occupied him for seven years (1905-11). He may not have been as natural a man of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1999

Clarinet Music by Bruch, Mozart & Schumann

It was a delightful idea to bring together three winning works for the rare combination of clarinet, viola and piano,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1989

Fernand Ansseau (1890-1972)

How very good to hear Ansseau again: the rekindling of an old affection, recognition of the distinctive timbre, the conviction...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Beethoven Symphony No. 3; Coriolan

There is not so much a world of difference between these two performances of the Eroica Symphony as an intergalactic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1997

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