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Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Leon Fleisher
Anyone inspecting the ranks of young American pianists back in the early 1960s will have encountered a wide array of...
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
Domingo and Perlman Together
How odd, you might think, to have a highlights disc of Verdi's Nabucco dedicated to the tenor who sings the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1992
R. Strauss Music for Symphonic Brass
James Stobart | Locke Brass Consort
It is good to have this collection of Strauss's music for brass transferred to CD. The sound is clear throughout...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sviatoslav Richter
Forced to select the greatest of Richter’s performances for a two-disc set (or even several such) I’m not sure I’d...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Ave Virgo
Corpus Christi College chapel choir, Cambridge | Leo Tomita | Thomas Chatterton
Looking down the listed programme – Duruflé following Palestrina, Brahms followed by Byrd – it all seems rather a hotchpotch,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2009
Kreisler 1926-1927 Victor Recordings
Carl Lamson | Franz Rupp | Fritz Kreisler | Kreisler Qt | Michael Raucheisen
Three excerpts from Dohnanyi's Ruralia hungarica are played on the second Biddulph disc, but otherwise no item in any of...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
Zara Dolukhanova - Leider, Songs , Arias, Duets
These four well-filled records encompass something near the whole range of one of Russia’s best-loved and most versatile singers. She...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2005
Moondog Sidewalk Dances
Britten Sinfonia | Joanna MacGregor
The cult that exists around the memory of New York street musician Moondog – real name Louis Hardin – hides...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2007
Lucienne: The Art of the Trumpet
Lille National Orchestra | Lucienne Renaudin Vary | Roberto Rizzi Brignoli
Is it a sign of age or are trumpeters getting younger these days? By the time she was signed last...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
Alexandre Tharaud: Autograph
Alexander Tharaud’s ‘Autographs’ are a series of musical signatures very much ‘as you like it’; a programme to suit all...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
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