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Kreisler/McCormack Duets
At the period when all but one of the recordings on the EMI disc were made, McCorrnack had become one...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem; Five Mystical Songs
Fifteen years separate this Chandos recording of Vaughan Williams's 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem from EMI's with Boult and the...
Reviewed in issue 3/1989
Bach (The) Well Tempered Clavier
In 1985 I heard Maurizio Pollini perform Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 and remembered his playing as straightforward, somewhat austere,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2010
Leighton Hymn Fantasies
Kenneth Leighton’s organ works definitely stand the test of time with their masterful contrapuntal textures, colourful chromatic but tonal harmony,...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 9/2011
Rachmaninov Piano Trios
Dmitry Yablonsky | Eduard Wulfson | Valeri Grohovski
Rachmaninov’s two piano trios may both bear the sobriquet “élégiaque” but that is where the similarity ends. The first was...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007
Beethoven Piano Works
City of London Sinfonia | Cristina Ortiz | Richard Hickox
On the face of it this is excellent value, for the recording is first class, the record is inexpensive and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1988
Liszt A Faust Symphony
Gösta Winbergh | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Westminster College Choir
Riccardo Muti's performance of Liszt's orchestral masterpiece is in many respects admirable in its synthesis of drama, introspection and diablerie;...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1991
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; Miraculous Mandarin
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa | Tanglewood Festival Chorus
A rewarding release that prompts a double-barrelled comparison, first with Sir Simon Rattle's identical coupling (a studio Miraculous Mandarin and...
Reviewed in issue 8/1995
Works for wind orchestra
Donald Hunsberger | Eastman Wind Ensemble | Phillip Koch | Wynton Marsalis
Telarc may well have spoiled us forever with their exceptional recordings of this marvellous band. CBS miss something of the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
Ibert/Jolivet/Nielsen Flute Concertos
No surprise to see eight recordings of Nielsen's genial Flute Concerto in The Classical Catalogue. But I would never have...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
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