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Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The First and Second Symphonies that round off Dohnanyi's Cleveland Beethoven cycle were recorded last October and December and show...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989

Schubert Trout Quintet, D667; String Quartet, D810

How good that both these much loved Trouts are now available on CD. In sound both come up remarkably well,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Bach Suite No 2; Handel Water Music

While this music-making is very enjoyable in its way, whether it can legitimately be described as 'Legendary' is another matter....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1988

Ockeghem: Sacred Choral Works

In name, Ockeghem's Missa prolationum may well be more famous than any other piece of fifteenth-century music. Written in mensural...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1989

Walton conducts Walton

At first sight this might seem to be a straightforward CD transfer from the EMI Treasury LP which I reviewed...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Haydn - Music for Prince Esterhazy

Haydn’s patrons certainly had their idiosyncratic tastes in instruments. In the 1760s and early 1770s the composer turned out reams...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2009

Mozart String Quartets

This disc completes the Berg's latest survey of Mozart's ten mature quartets; and, like its predecessors, it leaves me with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1991

Shostakovich & Schnittke Violin and Piano Works

Clarity and truth were the words I used to describe the original Chandos sound, and here it strikes me as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1985

Camilleri Piano Works

Twenty-one (of 22) pieces in this recital invoke the celestial in either its astronomical or mystical aspects. As travel in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2000

Brahms Piano Quartets 1 & 3

In his Memoirs Rubinstein tells us that as a very young boy studying in Berlin, his first all-consuming passion was...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989

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