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Songs of England
Graham Trew is by now very experienced in this repertoire, roughly English song of the earlier part of the century....
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3; Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1
Kyrill Kondrashin | Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | Van Cliburn
Here, published for the first time, are the performances that sealed the Texan’s first prize in the inaugural International Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2009
Two American ballets
Akira Endo | Jorge Mester | Louisville Orchestra
The Albany label was established initially to promote the music of our own George Lloyd. Now it has expanded across...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1990
Beethoven Late Piano Sonatas
This remarkable set of the late Beethoven piano sonatas was recorded by Charles Rosen in four London-based vacations in EMI's...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1994
Rossini Stabat Mater
One of the first, and best, recordings of this splendid but interpretatively elusive work was made in Berlin in 1954...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/1999
Mozart 'Coronation' Mass
Günter Wand | West German Radio Chorus | West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Amid a swathe of desirable radio recordings from Günter Wand’s long years as Kapellmeister in Cologne, these 1952‑53 Mozart and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2008
Biber/Schmelzer Trumpet works
New London Consort | Philip Pickett
A disc of music by the two most talented composers of seventeenth-century Austria and Bohemia is welcome and doubly so...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991
Lewensohn Odradek
Alexander Lonquich | Auryn Qt | Ora Rotem Nelken
Gideon Lewensohn (b1954) is an Israeli composer and teacher for whom the past – at least as far back as...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2003
Bréville Violin Sonata No 1; Canteloube Dans la Montagne
Pascal Devoyon | Philippe Graffin
Neither work here may qualify as forgotten masterpieces but there is so much to savour and admire that it does...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2004
Handel Giulio Cesare
This latest version of what is surely Handel’s finest opera – to my mind, the finest of all Baroque operas...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2003
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