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Bach Italian Concerto

Don’t be taken aback by so much rubato because it is legitimate. The treatises of Diruta‚ Quantz‚ Mattheson and Walther...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

What is our Life?-Renaissance Laments and Elegies

This recording presents a selection of renaissance lamentations – a frequent theme in an age when premature mortality was far...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1996

Bruckner Mass in E minor; Motets

Hyperion long ago paid signal service to Bruckner’s mature settings of the Mass with recordings by Matthew Best’s Corydon Singers...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2007

Braga San Domenico di Guzman

This ‘mystic tale’ in oratorio form by Milhaud’s disciple, the Neapolitan composer Antonio Braga, was written about 30 years ago...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999

Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Piano Concerto No 27

“Mozart: The Last Concertos” runs the rubric on the CD booklet, though as a counter to any sentimental “swansong” associations,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008

Bach Passacaglia, BWV (five versions)

A thought-provoking attempt to prise open the most imposing work of the organ repertoire contrasts an urtyp account on a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Beethoven: Symphonies

The first two movements of Karajan's 1962 Pastoral were generally acounted the least successful in the whole of that distinguished...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1988

Bruckner Symphony No 4 (1874 Version)

The original 1874 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony is rarely heard nowadays. When Bruckner revised the score in 1878/80 he...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2005

Music of Mexico, Vol. 3

Galindo's Sones de Mariachi is the clear winner here, an engagingly roisterous piece, orchestrated with raucous flair that would make...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1985

Shostakovich Symphony 13

This is the most entertaining modern recording of what is usually counted a forbidding work. You may even feel that...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

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