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Berg The School of Vienna Volume 1

What matters most about Berg? These performers offer very different answers. For the Schonberg Quartet (Schwann Musica Mundi/Koch International) it...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991

Mozart arr Bletchacher David, König in Jerusalem

Mozart didn’t, of course, write a work called David, König in Jerusalem. He did write Davidde penitente, a short oratorio...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/2003

Stravinsky Rite of Spring; Britten Sinfonia da Requiem

What happens to the Proms audience after the Last Night? No one knows for sure, but this new series of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

French Cello Works

An out-of-the-way programme, maybe, but the music isn’t uninteresting or second rate, and Lidström and Forsberg’s established expertise in performing...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2003

Bizet Orchestral Works

This effervescent youthful symphony is in excellent hands here. Marriner has recorded it before with the ASMF (Argo, 12/73—nla), and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1994

Rossi Oratorios

This is an extraordinary recording, and not just because it proves that the devil does not, in fact, get all...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1989

Orchestral Works

I confess I'd overlooked how effective Ommandy could be in Strauss. This Also sprach Zarathustra is a strong contender for...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Maconchy String Quartets Vol. I

No devotee of the string quartet can go for long, in this country at least, without encountering the work of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

The Last Night of the Proms 1994

Since my days as a promenader during the late 1940s and early 1950s (when a Promenade Season Ticket cost 50...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1995

Mozart Piano Concertos, etc

I have to admit that it was Daniel Barenboim's performances of the Mozart piano concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995

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