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Mozart Mass in C minor K427

This is a bad year for bringing out new Mozart records: far too much competition around. But even supposing the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Beecham conducts Delius

Many collectors, I know, have been impatiently waiting for this anthology to appear on CD—the greatest recordings made in stereo...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1987

The Art of Egon Petri

Irvine Arditti’s inexhaustible appetite for the contemporary and the complex, as both soloist and founder-leader of the Arditti Quartet, is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1996

Rozsa Orchestral Works

Just after welcoming the complete recording of the film score to The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (7/07), for which...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2007

Schumann Chamber Works

After the arrestingly imaginative performance of the Quintet recently given by Martha Argerich and friends, this new one comes as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Trevor Pinnock's Dido is a more languid affair than those listed above. Less over-dotting, fewer extremes of tempo, no funny...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1989

Bruckner Symphony No 6

After Sir Colin Davis’s eloquent and far-seeing account of Bruckner’s Ninth (1/03), I was more than a little intrigued to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2003

Haydn String Quartets Op 9

Haydn’s Op 9 quartets of c1769 have always led something of a shadow life. The minor mode around this time...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2007

Kashkashian/Levin Elegies

The sparse cover of this disc, which is subtitled ''Elegies'' has a reproduction of a pallidly coloured abstract picture by...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1986

Fauré Choral Works

How much should the French music publisher Hamelle be blamed for suggesting that Fauré expand his ‘petit Requiem’ into a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 13/2003

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