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Verdi Requiem

Hot on the heels of the Dutton Laboratories' transfer of the 1939 Serafin version of the Verdi Requiem (reviewed by...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1995

Rachmaninov; Prokofiev Cello Sonatas

Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata presents notorious balance problems. Though the composer took care in the Andante to give the two instruments...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2008

Schwartz Godspell

After the dismissive treatment that the revival of Hair received from the critics last September, it would be nice to...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/1994

Martin Triptychon

I remember hearing (as a callow 17-year-old) the broadcast of Polyptyque’s premiere, given by Menuhin and the Zürich CO for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2008

Vaughan-Williams Suite for viola; McEwen Viola Concerto

As Lewis Foreman explains in his very informative notes, this disc is effectively a tribute to the work and vision...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2011

Schmidt String Quartet in A

Franz Schmidt is not generously represented in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue and is not listed at all in the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1985

Gautier de Coincy Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame

Gautier de Coincy appears to have led a rather retiring existence. None of the wand’ring minstrel about him: he was...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1996

Mahler Sym No 4

Given the distance between the ‘authentic’ Fourths peddled by Mahler’s own disciples Mengelberg and Walter, Segerstam’s individualism cannot be ruled...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2000

Anne Sofie von Otter & Brad Meldhau - Love Songs

One has to wonder about Brad Mehldau’s love life. The Love Songs he has penned for Anne Sofie von Otter...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2011

Cello Concertos

Janos Starker recorded for Mercury on several occasions during the mid-1960s and it is timely to reassess these performances, now...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 4/1992

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