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Smetana Piano Works
Smetana’s piano music has always counted among my most ardent musical enthusiasms, and I was thrilled to discover a pianist...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
Jorda conducts Falla
Clifford Curzon | Enrique Jordá | London Symphony Orchestra | National Symphony Orchestra
Decca were justifiably proud of their ffrr (full frequency range recording) system, the first fruits of which were issued in...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996
French Organ Music
Edo de Waart | Michael Murray | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
This recording celebrates an engagingly American occasion in 1984, when after the installation of a huge and splendid new Ruffatti...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985
Suk Epilogue & Fairy Tale
Libor Pesek’s enterprising Suk series with the RLPO for Virgin Classics has now reached the Czech master’s final symphonic utterance,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998
All Souls' Vespers
The second recording from the Orchestra of the Renaissance, this time on Virgin Veritas, presents a reconstruction of Vespers for...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1997
Handel Israel In Egypt
The original 1739 version of Israel in Egypt consists of three extended anthems. Part 1 is a recycled version of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2009
Lutoslawski Orchestral Works
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Witold Lutoslawski
It's my guess that posterity will judge Witold Lutoslawski as among the supreme twentieth-century musical colourists. All four works included...
Reviewed in issue 2/1995
Schumann Piano Works
Whereas no less than 17 different versions of both Schumann's First and Second sonatas are listed in the current Classical...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992
Schoenberg: Works for String Orchestra
''That would be quite a disc!'' said Orpheus Chamber Orchestra member Julian Fifer when announcing the ensemble's plan for a...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1990
Rossini Tancredi
Tancredi is Rossini’s first fully imagined essay in the serious style; it was also one of the first operas to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1996
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