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Ten Top Tenors
If this proves as popular an anthology as it should do, it will introduce a lot of people to...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jorge Bolet
Jorge Bolet | Shura Cherkassky
Amongst all the ‘Great Pianists of the 20th Century’ in Philips’s munificent new collection, Shura Cherkassky must count as the...
Reviewed by dmurray in issue: 1/1999
R. Strauss: Orchestral Works
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra | Zdenek Kosler
If it's just Aus Italien you want, then Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic on Philips provide a marvellous performance, full...
Reviewed in issue 2/1991
Liszt Piano concertosa
Rostropovich (EMI, 6/95) and Maisky (DG, 3/00) have each given us very personal accounts of the Bach Cello Suites, the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2000
Jorda conducts Falla
Clifford Curzon | Enrique Jordá | London Symphony Orchestra | National Symphony Orchestra
Decca were justifiably proud of their ffrr (full frequency range recording) system, the first fruits of which were issued in...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996
Brahms Symphony No 2; Hungarian Dances
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Marin Alsop
This is a late-summer idyll of a performance, easily paced, nicely judged and warmly played. For first-time buyers it will...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2006
Grechaninov Strastnaya Sedista
Russian State Symphonic Cappella | Valéry Polyansky
The Seven Days of the Passion is a sequence of 13 hymns or anthems for Holy Week, written in 1911...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1995
KNUSSEN Symphonies Nos 2&3. Trumpets. Ophelia Dances
The recordings on the first of these CDs, reissued to mark Oliver Knussen’s 60th birthday, go back to the early...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2013
Bartók First Rhapsody; Kodaly Dances from Galánta; Háry János Suite
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Lawrence Foster
An appealing Eastern-flavoured musical salad this, and a fairly approachable sampling of what music from the region sounded like up...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2011
American Icons
James Watson | Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Brass
This American anthology is well named. The Copland Fanfare is iconic for jubilation, Barber’s Adagio for tragedy. The ensemble is...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2011
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