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Clementi Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

Never one to wax lyrical about fellow composers, Italians especially, Mozart notoriously dismissed Muzio Clementi as “a mere mechanicus”, without...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2008

Cherubini Mass No 1

No conductor is quite so persuasive an interpreter of Cherubini as Riccardo Muti. Starting in 1980 with the best-known of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2003

Bartók Piano Music, Volume 2

It is perhaps inevitable that the recordings of Jenö Jandó‚ surely the most prolific of all pianists on disc‚ should...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Hasse (The) Fiery Serpents in the Wilderness

Johann Adolph Hasse enjoyed a long association with Venice and was buried in the quiet church of San Marcuola by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2007

Brahms Chamber Works

Complete sets of Brahms's string quartets over the years have naturally enough included several fine performances of the third and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1990

David Oistrakh Artist of the People?

Remarkable though it often is, Bruno Monsaingeon’s “David Oistrakh – Artist of the people?” lacks the one significant ingredient that...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Mahler Symphony No 1

This is probably the best-played and most vividly engineered recording of Mahler’s First Symphony I’ve yet heard. The strings are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 2/2003

Toti dal Monte (1898-1975) - II

“She really does make you think that she is mad, which, considering the nature of the music, is a considerable...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Holmboe - Complete Chamber Concertos, Vol 4

This last in Da Capo’s series of Holmboe’s 13 Chamber Concertos (see also 3/97, 4/97 and 11/98) covers a ten-year...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Brahms Symphony No 1; Haydn (St Antony) Variations

The decision to begin this disc with Iván Fischer’s own arrangement for strings of Brahms’s soulful Hungarian Dance in D...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009

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