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Tchaikovsky Symphonic fantasies
Leopold Stokowski | New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra
I wrote recently that a good record is always a good record, and this comment applies even more to a...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1988
Schumann Symphonic Studies
With this CD Ragna Shirmer creates a cat’s cradle of intricate Schumann scholarship. Prefacing the Etudes symphoniques with the Beethoven...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2006
Illumina
Clare College Choir, Cambridge | Timothy Brown
The title-word derives from the Thirteenth Psalm, Illumina oculos meos ('lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death'). The...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999
Bernstein Live
It is 10 years since Leonard Bernstein died and his absence is keenly felt. Despite a public image at odds...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2001
Franck Symphony in D; Symphonic Variations; Les Eolides
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Louis Lortie | Yan Pascal Tortelier
With so many versions of the Symphony and the Symphonic Variations available, it is surprising that these two favourite orchestral...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Dvorák Complete Symphonies, etc
István Kertész | Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | Theodore Kuchar
It is good to be reminded of the fine quality of Czech orchestras other than the Czech Philharmonic. Jirí Belohlávek...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2005
A Tabernacle Organ Duo Extravaganza
John Longhurst | Robert Cundick
This record is my 'turkey' of the year. The Salt Lake Tabernacle organ is an impressive instrument and with four...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1991
Richter Edition
Excuse me if this sounds un-British, but I have to say that my soul took wing in the course of...
Reviewed in issue 6/1996
Joshua Bell - Voice of the Violin
Anna Netrebko | Frederic Chiu | Joshua Bell | Michael Stern | St Luke's Orchestra
Joshua Bell, possessor of one of the loveliest violin timbres of our time, here follows up his “Romance of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2006
O lux beata Trinitas
Clare College Choir, Cambridge | Graham Ross
And so Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, reach the end of their musical pilgrimage through the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
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