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Bach - A la Maniera Italiana - Harpsichord Works

Don't take the album title too literally; it is drawn from that of BWV989 and is the focus of neither...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/2000

Dawn Upshaw-The girl with orange lips

The Girl with Orange Lips, shadowed with fern-leaves from the New York botanical garden, is Dawn Upshaw: or is she?...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1991

Tchaikovsky (The) Seasons

Tchaikovsky’s 12 Seasons (which might more truthfully have been called ‘Months’) are slight but winningly poetic piano miniatures – though...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2003

Schubert Symphony No 8, 'Unfinished'

Brian Newbould’s sensitive completion of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony in four movements has been recorded several times before, but here it...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2009

Verdi Ernani (pp1957)

This is a performance to delight Verdians, Florence seriously challenging its La Scala rival on EMI. Roger Parker, writing recently...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001

Mozart Violin Sonatas, K454 & K481

This is Volume 5 of a set of the Mozart violin sonatas that has been generally well received. I have...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1986

Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Furtwangler's way with the Pastoral may be quite a shock to anyone used to present-day performances. Its sound, to begin...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1985

Delius Orchestral Works

It's time for Delians who secretly love this early one-movement Piano Concerto to stand up and be counted: the meditative...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1992

Balakirev Symphony 2 etc

Recognition of Balakirev’s genius has been slow – accentuated, no doubt, by his difficult and vituperative personality. Even today, outstanding...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1999

Beethoven String Quartets No 3; No 5; No 16

Promise blossoms. The Artemis Quartet’s previous recording (of Op 18 No 1 and Op 127 – 12/10) was, despite a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2011

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