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Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 2

Hyperion and the Hanover Band immediately gain over the rival period-instrument version of Nos. 90 and 91 by including the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1991

Mendelssohn Elijah

I imagine that, for most Gramophone readers, Elijah should be sung in English, as at the first performance in Birmingham...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2011

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Suites Nos 1-3

There is a good case to be made for programming the 20 numbers from all three of Prokofiev’s Romeo and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2007

Bach, CPE; Graf; Haydn Concerti brillanti

To offer three world premiere recordings among these four 18th_century concertos is enterprising enough, so we can forgive Jan Vogler...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2008

Walton & Vaughan Williams: Concertos

This collection is a straight transfer from an EMI Treasury LP issued four years ago (11/87), and gives as much...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Mozart Serenade K361, 'Gran Partita'

For me, the outstanding recording of this unique work has always been the 1947 account directed by Furtwängler. More recent...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2006

Handel Israel in Egypt

Israel in Egypt was never very popular in Handel's own day, mainly because its music is predominantly choral; but during...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1994

Mozart Demofoonte

Mozart contemplated setting Metastasio’s famous libretto Demofoonte while he was at Paris in 1778, but never acted on it. So...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2008

Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

Telarc's Cleveland/Maazel coupling of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on the Bare Mountain (11/84) was one of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992

Shura Cherkassky Live, Volume 6

Here are Vols. 5 and 6 of Decca's incomparable and, at last, progressing tribute to a great and unique artist....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1995

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