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Sounds of St Giles's
John Harris | Michael Harris | St Giles Cathedral Choir, Edinburgh
This is an attractive and varied programme, very well recorded. The choral works are given polished, vibrant performances with sympathetic...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/1999
Mar Mediterranean Love Songs of the Thirteenth Century
Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua | Stefano Albarello
An anthology of magnificent songs from various Mediterranean traditions, with a strong Arab influence on performance style. Though in such...
Reviewed in issue 1/1999
Brahms Orchestral and Choral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Radio Chorus | Claudio Abbado
This disc is planned so that we hear the two shorter works first. Abbado's interpretation of the Haydn Variations is...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
Mahler Symphony No 1 (with Blumine)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Leif Segerstam
Compact Disc is the ideal medium in which to experiment with a heretical, five-movement Mahler First. In the LP era,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Verdi Aida
They don’t make them like this any more – in every sense. In the 1950s and 1960s EMI made a...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1999
Glazunov Symphonies Nos 4 and 8
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Tadaaki Otaka
Anyone wondering whether to invest in a Glazunov cycle could do a lot worse than start here. Composed in 1893,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2004
Schumann/Brahms Piano Works
We have too few recordings of solo recitals from Imogen Cooper, and this one is welcome, not least because it...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992
Sibelius Orchestral Works
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Leif Segerstam
At the risk of repeating myself, the four Legends (variously known as the Lemminkainen Suite and the Lemminkainen Legends), first...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1996
Josef Hassid: the complete recordings (1939/40); The Young Ricci
Carl Fürstner | Gerald Moore | Ivor Newton | Josef Hassid | Louis Persinger | Ruggiero Ricci
The two 12-inch 78s containing Sarasate's ''Playera'' and ''Zapateado,'' Dvorak's Humoreske and Achron's Hebrew Melody played by Josef Hassid and...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 9/1987
French Orchestral Works
José Serebrier | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Valerie Traficante
If the idea of hearing this programme in a large church appeals—in this case, St Barnabas, Mitcham—then here is a...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1994
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