We can Handel more
Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline &c. (Prospero)
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
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Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
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The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
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