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Langford Orchestral Classics

Listening to this generous and engaging collection, I cannot help but reflect again that this kind of stylish, tuneful and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2003

Les Saisons Amusantes

Nicolas, the last of a line of musical Chedevilles, was a man whose many hats included those of maker and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Handel Mezzo-Soprano Opera Arias

Once a star chorister in the Vienna Boys’ Choir, Max Emanuel Cencic is more counter-mezzo than countertenor, with a range...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2010

Grieg String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

It’s a great shame that Grieg never finished his Second Quartet. The two completed movements, dating from 1891, have all...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1999

Hungarian Dances

The title has a particular significance - Philippe Graffin acted as “violin consultant” for Jessica Duchen’s novel, Hungarian Dances and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2009

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

''It would be a dullard indeed who could listen to Tennstedt's... account of the opening movement of the Pastoral Symphony...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1987

Mozart Violin Sonatas

This issue forms the third of what will be a four-disc set of the 16 piano and violin sonatas Mozart...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/1997

Ligeti Project, Vol 2: Atmospheres; Apparitions; San Francisco Polyphony; Lontano; Romanian Concerto

Thank goodness that‚ despite many vicissitudes‚ the complete Ligeti project has got this far. For here at last are the...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Barbara Hendricks – Opera Arias

There is a nostalgic air to this recital, issued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Barbara Hendricks’ début in 1974....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/2004

Wagner (Die) Meistersinger - excs; Götterdämmerung - excs

In welcoming these outstanding examples of Stokowski’s consummate flair in Wagner‚ one wonders why‚ in the late 1960s‚ the BBC’s...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

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