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Suk Orchestral Works
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek
Only the Serenade has really become popular among Suk's works, and for that the gramophone is largely responsible. A dozen...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1993
Brahms/Liszt/Beethoven Piano Works
Gina Bachauer | London Symphony Orchestra | Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Once upon a time women pianists were thought not to be 'up to' the two Brahms concertos, an idea Gina...
Reviewed in issue 9/1995
Elgar Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Adrian Boult | Charles Mackerras | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra
Your choice here depends on whether you want Boult's distinguished, eminently safe but (for him) slightly mundane performance of the...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Louis Kaufman plays 20th Century Concertos
In the early days of LP Louis Kaufman was a consistent champion of contemporary music, and many readers may well...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1992
Shostakovich Symphony No.8
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
Having seen and heard Vasily Petrenko’s work in Liverpool almost from the beginning, I can testify to his dramatic impact,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2010
Bruckner Works for String Quintet
How inconvenient. Having praised the Sonare Quartet and Vladimir Mendelssohn's Bruckner Quintet on Claves/Albany in I don't know how many...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991
Rosbaud conducts Bruckner & Mahler
Grace Hoffmann | Hans Rosbaud | Helmut Melchert | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
These are wonderfully cleansing interpretations. Hans Rosbaud, a figure revered among budding conductors in the 1950s, not least Boulez, was,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997
Lindberg; Sibelius Violin Concertos
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lisa Batiashvili | Sakari Oramo
It’s been said that Magnus Lindberg forges his works more from harmony and rhythm than from unfolding melodic lines, and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007
Strauss Four Last Songs
Christian Thielemann | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra | Renée Fleming
As the penultimate track on this often thrilling recital, Renée Fleming sings Strauss’s rethink of Zueignung, orchestrated in 1940 as...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 11/2008
Mozart Don Giovanni
By general consent, the performances of Don Giovanni in Sir Peter Hall's production at Glyndebourne in 1982 were considered profoundly...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1984
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