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Boccherini Quintets for Guitar and String Quartet

Given that there are only two other complete recordings of Boccherini’s guitar quintets available, and those having been around for...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 4/2006

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies

The bigger the record company, the greater its output of Beethoven cycles—a plausible generalization, though so far Decca and EMI...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1989

Janácek Operatic and Orchestral Works

Sir Charles Mackerras's Janacek opera series has been one of the major recording events of recent years, so it is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1991

Yvonne Kenny at the Wigmore Hall

Returning to this recital for the first time since its original issue, one feels that the Fiancailles pour rire, at...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

Debussy Orchestral works

It is hardly surprising that EMI have included this 1979 Gramophone Record Award recording in its first batch of CDs....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1984

Mahler Symphony No 2

Haitink's reputation for dourness is not always justified but here I think it is. This is a conservative, straightforward and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Telemann Flute Concertos

You will rarely hear such personality in a Baroque-concerto soloist as the extraordinary Emmanuel Pahud exhibits here. Following a lively...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2002

Bach ClavierÜbung, Pt 3; Chorales

However arcane in appearance, this programme principally comprises the major chorale preludes which form the basis of the third part...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1999

Schubert Symphony 9

Trevor Harvey greeted this in the warmest terms—and rightly so. As a performance it is quite glorious and can hold...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1983

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6; Francesca da Rimini

It is not difficult to think of more starry combinations that make a mess of those roller-coaster rising and falling...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1994

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