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Haydn String Quartets

The Endellion have, perhaps, a little underestimated Haydn in his Op. 54. Their approach is direct, bright-toned, light-hearted: no bad...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1988

Janacek From the House of the Dead

Lulu, filmed for TV but inexplicably not yet released on DVD. In the interim the conductor has taken on repertoire...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2008

Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty

Given the total engagement in every bar of this recording, especially the vivid and varied characterization, one is left wondering...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1999

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 5 & 9

These familiar yet ambiguous scores continue to transcend the disparate agendas of their interpreters. In the Fifth, the sheer intensity...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2004

Adams; Nancarrow; Reich American Works

David Jeffcock’s ‘Portrait’ of John Adams is a colourful snapshot of the brilliant American composer. It’s not a particularly detailed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 7/2003

F. Couperin Livre de clavecin, Book 4

Couperin's Fourth Book of harpsichord pieces, his last, was published in Paris in 1730 though, as he himself remarked in...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994

Bach Brandenburg Concertos

There is not yet a middle-of-the-road set of the Brandenburgs to which no objection can be taken (will there ever...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1985

Strauss Symphonies in D and F

This is the third release in Koch Schwann’s unknown Richard Strauss series and I cannot recall another coupling of Strauss’s...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Brahms Piano Concerto 2

Following hard on the heels of Naxos’s invaluable reissue of the First Concerto (12/01) comes a scarcely less important sequel....

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Russian Violin Works

This is a well-chosen programme which may well appeal to collectors looking for a complement to the two Prokofiev violin...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

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