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Brahms Horn Trio; Serenade

First the rarity – Brahms’s D major Serenade, familiar enough, of course, in orchestral dress, but first conceived as a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/2000

Rubinstein plays Grieg & Tchaikovsky Concertos

The recording of the Grieg Concerto is circa 1956, but the quality is remarkably good, with plenty of presence and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Online discographies (including off-air material) list no fewer than 11 Lucia recordings by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge from the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2011

Glass The Voyage

I wonder how many people have a clear recollection of the massive celebrations of the “Discoveries” in 1992. Hundreds of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2006

Orchestral & Vocal Works

This is exceptionally good work undoubtedly the best indication to date that Jarvi may yet make a 'major league' Mahlerian....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1993

Handel Saul

Here we have a further recording from Germany of Handel’s tragic masterpiece of 1738. Like the Neumann recording, it was...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999

Hosokawa; Otaka; Takemitsu Orchestral Works

Although the chief attraction of this disc will undoubtedly be the two rarely heard scores by Takemitsu, the main fare...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Mozart Chamber Works

Do we really need another recording of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, when available versions already occupy 13 column inches in the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1995

Saint-Saëns Songs

This is the most resounding blow yet to be struck for the melodies of Saint-Saens. Though there have been two...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1997

CPE & WF Bach Sinfonias

Can Naxos really be planning a series of eighteenth-century symphony recordings, as the cover to this release implies? All power...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1996

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