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Spohr Chamber Works

The finest work on this record is the late Sextet, which has often been suggested as an influence on Brahms's...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994

Mozart Symphonies Nos 40 & 41

It is a while now since Bruno Weil and Tafelmusik made classical-period music together in the first days of Sony...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2008

Philips & Dering Motets

Peter Philips and Richard Dering make a happy coupling, as this disc of neatly paired settings of similar texts demonstrates....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1991

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

The revival of Monteverdi's music for St Mark's is welcome, since much of it is very fine. His main job...

Reviewed in issue 2/1984

Lyapunov: Orchestral Works

Lyapunov was a pupil of Tchaikovsky and more crucially, of Balakirev, whose formidably interventionist teaching methods he repaid with the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1989

Simpson Chamber Works

Here is yet another invigorating and thought-provoking disc in Hyperion’s invaluable Simpson cycle. It’s difficult to avoid the familiar adjectives,...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Herbert, M - Songs

Muriel Herbert (1897- 1984) was a protégée of Roger Quilter, who arranged for the earliest publication of some of her...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 8/2009

Mendelssohn Complete String Quartets, Vol 1

These fruits of Mendelssohn’s precocious maturity demand a fresh‚ enthusiastic response‚ and the Leipzig Quartet don’t disappoint. In passionate‚ intense...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Amsterdam Loecki Stardust Quartet - Fantazias

To draw most of the repertory for a recorder quartet disc from quintessential string music is a brave concept and...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Mozart Violin Sonatas

Despite the rapid encroachment of the fortepiano, the harpsichord remained the most common domestic keyboard instrument until the very end...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1991

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