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Monteverdi Vespers

The technical and interpretative problems of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 are legion. Should the entire volume be performed as...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 5/1985

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 1

I am not one to endorse the opinion that the late-Liszt style was one of a constantly high quality. Nor...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1987

(The) Da Vinci Code - OST

You can’t avoid it. Even the soundtrack has courted advance publicity. The British Board of Film Classification requested that Hans...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2006

Bach Cantatas, Vol 45

By 1726 new cantatas appeared sporadically, as Bach drew increasingly on the work of his contemporaries for Sunday worship. Quality,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2011

Beethoven Septet, Op 20; Hindemith Octet

The impeccable ensemble and superb soloist skills of the Vienna Chamber Ensemble magnificently highlight the elegance of Beethoven’s musical discourse...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Opera Gala

With one of the richest and most powerful voices of the age, Alessandra Marc has not been taken up, as...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2001

Shchedrin (The) Sealed Angel

Ever the stylistic chameleon, Rodion Shchedrin here continues the tradition of Rachmaninov’s choral cycles. The nine anthems are interspersed with...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/1999

Chopin piano music

We're told that the 37-year-old Zurich-born Werner Bartschi is an artistic personality not conforming ''to the usual standards of the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1987

Bach; Beethoven; Shostakovich Piano Works

Tatyana Nikolaieva’s playing is puzzlingly variable, switching from fluency to awkwardness. Some aspects of the music seem to stress her...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2003

Berlioz Orchestral Works

The exaggerations of this performance of the Symphonie fantastique do not really accord with Berlioz's subtle sense of extremes. Batiz...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994

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