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Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture; String Serenade

Like my colleagues EG and ES before me, I come away with mixed feelings about Christoph Eschenbach’s Tchaikovsky: admiration, certainly,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2010

Horowitz The HMV Recordings, 1930-51

Almost without exception these performances are free from any excess and in many cases Horowitz sounds a great deal more...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1990

Schumann Symphony 3 & Overture, Scherzo and Finale

If this set of performances had come from the latter-day Giulini, there probably wouldn't be much in the way of...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 1/2000

Mozart String Quintets, Vol. 1

As with their Naxos series of Mozart string quartets, the Eder here couple early music with later, which is inconvenient...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1995

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

The first two things to strike one here are the nobly incisive tone of the 1782 Sodi harpsichord (in the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1994

Mahler Symphony No 5

Getting Mahler's Fifth Symphony on to a single LP, as Decca have done with Solti's 1970 Chicago recording, is a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1985

Mozart: Complete String Quartets

This series of performances dates from between 1966 (when the six quartets Nos. 14-19 dedicated to Haydn were recorded) to...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1987

Malipiero Orchestral Works

If an authority as discriminating and as reluctant to overstate as Luigi Dallapiccola described Malipiero as ''the most important Italian...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1993

Orff Carmina Burana

Among the digitally recorded versions of Orff's cantata, Mata's RCA version is, all in all, the best recommendation, the sound...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

Great Violinist from the Dawn of Recording

Despite the age of these recordings, I find I can quickly adjust and listen through the sizzle and swish (reduced...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2004

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