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Handel Messiah

How authentic is authentic? Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert here add to the already long list of Messiah recordings...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1988

Pachelbel Hexachordum Apollinis

Hexachordum Apollinis is considered Pachelbel's finest composition in variation form. It consists of six Arias each comprising a theme and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1991

Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

By good fortune Naxos have chosen a splendid player to introduce us to Nos. 2 and 3. The Russian artist,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1997

Harris, W H Anthems

The previous CD devoted to Sir William Harris is worth calling to attention now because it presents the composer in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2007

Shostakovich Symphony No 9; Piano Concerto No 1

The first striking thing here is the recorded balance. Distant miking and generous ambience lend the orchestra the kind of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2006

Copland: Orchestral Works

When playing this Compact Disc be careful to set the volume level considerably below your normal one before you start....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1983

Finzi Dies Natalis & Intimations of Immortality.

I am not very confident of understanding what T. S. Eliot meant when he said he had “shored” various fragments...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Britten (Les) Illuminations; Serenade

With just a dozen players, the Scottish Ensemble makes a tight-knit group. Everywhere on this disc there is playing of...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 5/2005

Beethoven - Complete Works for Cello & Piano

The traditional, legendary view of Beethoven presents him as a fiery, temperamental iconoclast, but it's surely a characteristic of great...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2000

Taktakishvili Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1; Balakirev Tamara

These are fresh, vibrant readings presented in a fluent, eagerly communicative style. It is as if this gifted young player...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

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