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Shostakovich The 15 Symphonies
Kondrashin's Shostakovich cycle, last encountered as an indivisible and awkwardly arranged box of 12 LPs from EMI (12/85), is now...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen - without words
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Lorin Maazel
The title of this CD is ''The Ring Without Words'' and it comprises a series of linked episodes from all...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1988
Berg; Schoenberg Piano Works
Most CDs featuring Second Viennese School piano music include Webern’s brief but significant contributions alongside Schoenberg and Berg. Roland Pöntinen...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2006
Journey to the Amazon
Gaudencio Thiago de Mello | Paul Winter | Sharon Isbin
No one is currently doing more to free the guitar from its rent-a-programme image than Sharon Isbin. She is not...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1998
Bartók Piano Concertos
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini
These two concertos, products of Bartok's most intransigent radicalism, have been well served on LP—notably by Anda, Bishop-Kovacevich and Ashkenazy....
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Biber/Schmelzer Sonatas
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Consort
The glowing incandescence of Austrian mid-baroque instrumental music could hardly be more effectively demonstrated than in the choice of repertoire...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1996
Indy Orchestral Music
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra | Theodor Guschlbauer
The real find here is Souvenirs, a haunting, imaginatively scored tone-poem that d'Indy composed in 1906 in remembrance of his...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
Haydn String Quartets, Op 76
Haydn’s Op 76 quartets represent one of the peaks of his output. Less serene and poised than the two final...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/2000
A Russian Christmas
Andrei Malyutin | Pokrov Ensemble
Here is an exhilarating disc of early Russian Christmas music let down by inadequate documentation and translations of titles: Peaceful...
Reviewed in issue 12/1997
Ives/Ruggles/Seeger Orchestral Works
Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra | Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
I welcomed the Cleveland/Dohnanyi Ives Symphony No. 4 coupled with Varese's Ameriques (Decca, 11/94). The same policy of linking Ives...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1995
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