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Bartók: Orchestral Works
I wonder if Ivan Fischer has heard his brother Adam's account of the Concerto for Orchestra (Nimbus), or vice versa?...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1991
Monteux conducts Tchaikovsky at the Vienna Festival
John Ogdon | London Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Monteux
This all-Tchaikovsky Vienna Festival concert here receives its first ever issue three decades after the event (the tapes had apparently...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995
Donizetti Pia de' Tolomei
Pia de’ Tolomei is the unhappy lady in Dante who, made in Siena, was unmade in Maremma (‘Siena mi fe,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2005
Lou Preager Cruising Down the River
Through the 1930s English dance music developed a unique and characteristic flavour. Well-mannered, light and unobtrusive, it was perfectly adapted...
Reviewed in issue 3/1998
Elgar Orchestral Works
Charles Groves | Noel Rawsthorne | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
This collection is a logical pendant to the reissue of Sir Adrian Boult's late EMI Elgar recordings, for just at...
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Britten Billy Budd
This is an exciting achievement. Based on concert performances given in Manchester last year, it restores to circulation the original,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1998
Shostakovich Symphony No 4, arranged for 2 pianos
Colin Stone | Rustem Hayroudinoff
Although recording has long replaced the need for piano reductions (whether two- or four-hand) to get to know orchestral works,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2005
Stravinsky Piano Works
This is about as attractive a programme for a single CD of Stravinsky’s music as could be devised. The inclusion...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: /2000
Legendary Voices
Nigel Douglas's book Legendary Voices (Deutsch: 1992) gives engagingly appreciative accounts of 14 favourite singers, coupling a biographical sketch, and...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
Brahms Piano Sonata No 3
Having expressed some serious reservations about Kissin’s past three RCA discs, while marvelling at his often prodigious command, I find...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2003
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