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Beethoven (The) Late Quartets

Late Beethoven is all about contrasts: prayer and play, structural logic and emotional candour, relative convention and daring. Wherever you...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2005

Mozart Divertimento; Duo

Divertimento? Hardly‚ according to the Leopold Trio. If a first movement of dramatic gesture‚ of marked switches between tension and...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

Vainberg String Quartets, Vol.11

Vainberg’s First Quartet, as recorded here, bears the odd opus number 2/141, and the date 1937-86. The explanation is that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1998

Dvorák/Smetana Orchestral Works

The Italian company Ermitage (not currently distributed in the UK) have already issued a live New World and Bartered bride...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1996

Budapest Quartet - Library of Congress Mozart Recordings (1940-45)

This brings together a series of fascinating recordings by the Budapest Quartet at its peak, made live at the Library...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1999

Mozart Orchestral Works

Yet another recruit to the rapidly increasing body of recordings of Mozart's most sumptuous serenade. It is a good, musicianly...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1988

Moeran Cello Concerto; Sinfonietta

Written at the end of the Second World War, Moeran's Cello Concerto is a dark, sombre work, in which the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Brahms Complete Lieder Edition, Vol. 6

Of all the leading composers of Lieder‚ Brahms suffers more than any other through neglect‚ with so little of his...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral works

There is no doubt that this is a thrilling 1812. It has plenty of thrust and is extremely well played....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1986

An Italian Songbook Cecilia Bartoli

The transforming power of imagination is rarely shown so clearly. On record and in recital these songs and their like...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

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