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(The) Long, Long Winter Night - Norwegian Piano Works
Leif Ove Andsnes may have vowed not to touch Grieg’s Piano Concerto again for many years, but he shows he...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1998
Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer
These performances, which took place within two years of each other in wartime Germany, rank high in the work’s...
Reviewed in issue 6/1996
Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Were we to be so lucky as to come across a Barbiere recording today that was sung and played with...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987
Górecki (3) String Quartets
String quartets occupied Henryk Górecki intensively in his later years. Inspired by lines from a Renaissance motet, Already it is...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 6/2011
Airs Francais
Ben Heppner | London Symphony Orchestra | London Voices | Myung-Whun Chung | Paul Silverthorne
Although Heppner is often referred to as a Heldentenor – he has recorded glowing accounts of Walther von Stolzing (twice‚...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Bach Violin Sonatas, BWV1015-17 /20/22
David Ponsford | Jacqueline Ross
For once eschewing the twoCD ‘complete violin sonatas’ approach‚ this release offers three of the usual sonatas for violin and...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Brahms String Quartets 1 & 2
Danish Quartet | Takács Quartet
We're told that the present Danish Quartet (apparently the third generation to appropriate this title) was formed as recently as...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1990
Vivaldi 12 Concertos, Op. 3
I Musici will doubtless be greatly relieved that, with this new issue of theirs of Vivaldi's splendid first set of...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1984
Ibert Orchestral Works
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Louis Frémaux
Ibert’s jokey Divertissement, originally designed for the stage farce The Italian straw hat (O, for a re-run of Rene Clair’s...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996
Creston Orchestral Works
Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra | David Amos
Paul Creston (1906-85) was an extravagant American romantic in some ways comparable to his contemporary Howard Hanson. Both composers wrote...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992
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