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Mahler Symphony No 9

No prizes for speculating as to why this was Bernstein's one and only appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic. The name...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1992

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Reviewers often find themselves in two minds about a recording (more often, perhaps, than they admit). But listening to this...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1997

Handel Messiah

The 1980 recording of Messiah (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 7/84) by these forces was revolutionary. This BBC version was filmed two years later...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2006

Boyce Peleus and Thetis and other theatre music

William Boyce, chiefly remembered these days for his symphonies and perhaps his collection of cathedral music, was in his time...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1997

Ives Three Orchestral Sets

This is a fascinating release that offers Ives’s three Orchestral Sets for the first time. The curtain is raised with...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2008

Verdi Galante - Arias

The more I hear of Inessa Galante, the more perplexed I become that she is not employed by opera houses...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2003

Mozart: Opera and Concert Arias

This is another utterly recommendable disc from Bar. It would be hard to imagine these arias being more pointedly or...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989

Grieg Orchestral Works

In this Barbirolli Society issue Dutton has neatly brought together Grieg recordings made originally for both HMV and Pye, omitting...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1999

R Strauss Don Quixote; Horn Concerto No 2

Fournier had previously set down the main work with Krauss and Szell, and his subtle and noble playing was well...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Mozart Complete Piano Sonatas

Collectors can now buy Uchida's widely esteemed Mozart cycle as a single six-CD (or seven-LP) package very conveniently arranged in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1989

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