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Handel Scipione

Handel composed Scipione in the period of his operatic career that Burney described as his ''meridian splendor''. But it does...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1994

Monteverdi (L') Orfeo

Here, to mark Orfeo's 400th birthday, is the keenly awaited new recording from Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini; and here,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2007

Mozart and Haydn: Wind Concertos

Writing in last September's issue IM dismissed these concertos rather summarily after explaining how they came to be put down...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Bartók Piano Concertos

These two concertos, products of Bartok's most intransigent radicalism, have been well served on LP—notably by Anda, Bishop-Kovacevich and Ashkenazy....

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Bruch Symphonies

Max Bruch's three symphonies are not neglected masterpieces that need only competent performance, to reveal their stature. They are works...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1994

Bartók Orchestral Works; Kodály Dances of Galánta

On this showing Sir Charles Mackerras sees Bartók as a composer more expressive than brutal, less sharply contrasted with his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2005

Brahms & Smetana Piano Trios

Founded in 1991, the Vienna Mozart Trio make up in enthusiasm and attack what they as yet lack in technical...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998

Kleinknecht Sonate da Camera

In the mid eighteenth century Jakob Friedrich, one of six musicians produced by the Kleinknecht family in three generations, was...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1998

Beethoven String Quartets 4 & 14

Like the Juilliard and Emerson Quartets, the Hagen has a healthy habit of 'making it new', visiting standard repertoire with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2000

Mahler Symphony No 5

Don’t let the very opening put you off. Daniele Gatti takes his cue from Mahler’s injunction that the upbeat triplets...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

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