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Mozart (The) Magic Flute

No work seems to me to make better sense in the vernacular than Mozart’s concluding masterpiece. The composer and, assuredly,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2005

Beethoven Violin Sonatas

This is a selection from Zukerman's and Neikrug's four-disc set of the ten sonatas which I reviewed last year. The...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Haydn Two String Quartets

I have always had a slightly soft spot for the Haydn Opp. 71 and 74 sets of quartets because of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1987

Janácek (The) Excursions of Mr Broucek

Mr Broucek's excursions may have carried him to the moon and the 15th century, but it took him longer to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2008

Dvorák/Smetana Works for Violin & Piano

EMI haven't exactly been over-generous with the playing time on this CD—40 minutes of music is not good value for...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1986

Fauré Works for Cello & Piano

Faure's cello sonatas are late works of 1917 and 1921, but they are energetic and therefore do not initially sound...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1994

Russian Romantic Songs

It is misleading for the authors of the insert-note to suggest that ‘the Russian term romans closely corresponds to the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2005

Chopin Piano Works

Few pianists have provoked more controversy than György Cziffra (1921-94). Even in his adopted France his reputation shifted from one...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2004

Hummel Fantasies

The most substantial work here is also the earliest and most adventurous. The Fantasie in E flat, Op 18 (23’24”)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2006

Haydn Organ Masses

Some ten years probably separates the composition of the Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (c. 1768) from the Missa...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1988

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