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British Masters (Volume 2)
Christian Lindberg | City of London Brass Quartet | City of London Wind Ensemble | Geoffrey Brand
Where Vol. 1 of this very worthwhile series ((CD) LDRCD1001, 7/89) chose to confer British citizenship on unsuspecting Cabezon, Vol....
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini
Different versions of Berlioz’s first opera survive, and different performing solutions have to be arrived at. When the Opéra-Comique rejected...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2007
Mahler Symphony No 2
Like Blomstedt's recent two-disc package, this Mehta recording seeks to usurp the reviewer's function by embedding a pre-emptive critique in...
Reviewed in issue 2/1995
Britten String Quartets, Vol 2
This second volume of the Maggini Quartet’s Britten series amply fulfils the promise of the first (12/98). As before, the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1999
Rachmaninov Symphony No 3; Symphonic Dances
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman
Barely represented on disc a generation ago, Rachmaninov's final orchestral works are firm favourites these days often coupled together as...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty - excerpts
Mark Ermler | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden
The Sleeping Beauty is the most intractable of the three great Tchaikovsky ballets, as Diaghilev found to his cost (a...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1990
Liszt: Orchestral Works
The novelty here is the original orchestration of the two St Francis legends which are among Liszt's most popular piano...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1987
Wesley Anthems
Christopher Robinson | Clare College Choir, Cambridge | James McVinnie
SS Wesley has been well served in recent times by the choirs of Worcester Cathedral and New College, Oxford, both...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2007
Rimsky-Korsakov Suites
Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bringing together music from Rimsky-Korsakov's six best-known operas (plus the less familiar Christmas Eve, which offers some of the most...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1984
Mascagni Guglielmo Ratcliff
We think of Cavalleria Rusticana as Mascagni's first opera, but in fact it had a predecessor whose long gestation taught...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1990
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