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Mozart Chamber Music for Clarinet

The performance of the Clarinet Quintet is as sympathetic, as soft-edged and as autumnal in flavour as anyone could wish....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1994

Handel Roman Cantatas

This CD offers a pleasant and varied selection of Handel's Italian cantatas. It is framed by two of the longer...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1994

Mozart Requiem

Unusual indeed is the effect of Peter Lichtenthal’s 1802 transcription of 12 movements from Mozart’s Requiem. It will, perhaps, be...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2009

Beethoven String Quartets Nos 8 and 9

A pair of forceful chords, then a rest, a typically twisting theme, another rest, the theme transposed—and we're launched on...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Abrahamsen, H Schnee

Among the leading younger figures of the 1980s, Hans Abrahamsen largely ceased original composition until the arrival almost a decade...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 8/2010

Dvorák Czech Suite (B93); Waltzes (B101); Polonaise (B100)

This is a delightful collection of Dvorák in relaxed mood. All three works date from 1879, just when German publishers...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006

Rorem Three Symphonies

Naxos has scored another bull’s eye in its American Classics series, giving us long-awaited, première recordings of Ned Rorem’s first...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2003

Feldman - First Recordings: 1950s

The Mode release offers Feldman jewels from the 1950s, mostly first recordings. I had never heard his tape piece, Intersection,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1999

Vaughan Williams Symphonies

Were the competition less intense, I'd probably be bestowing a warmer welcome to Kees Bakels's new coupling (the second instalment...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Wagner Parsifal

Parsifal always brings out the very best in its interpreters, and this new version is no exception. Barenboim is always...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991

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