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Schubert Symphonies Nos 8 & 9
Charles Mackerras | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sir Charles’s ‘discovery’ of the autograph score’s alla breve marking for the Ninth Symphony’s introduction and his other textual concerns...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Lilya Zilberstein
Still they come. The Rachmaninov Concertos notably Nos. 2 and 3, gain rather than decrease in popularity, and Lilya Zilberstein's...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995
Meyerbeer Dinorah
The day after its premiere at the Opera-Comique, Meyerbeer wrote to his wife to say that everybody, including the Emperor...
Reviewed in issue 4/1994
Bach (6) Motets
Berlin Vocal Consort | Marcus Creed
Alongside the familiar six motets, this CD includes Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, a composition formerly attributed...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 6/2011
Bruckner Symphony No 5
Benjamin Zander | Philharmonia Orchestra
Yet another Bruckner Fifth? Not exactly. The performance, which has its own distinction, comes with an 80-minute bonus disc of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2009
Constant Lambert Vocal & Orchestral Works
Of course all new recordings 'make a difference' in some degree; this one really makes a difference. Summer's Last Will...
Reviewed in issue 6/1992
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
''Not again!'' could be the seasoned reader's reaction to the above heading. But even classics of the gramophone have to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1989
Schubert Octet
There is something not absolutely right about the first sustained note of the Octet as played here, the clarinet's intonation...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
Wagner Götterdämmerung
Recorded “live” over two nights at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall last May, this performance serves as both culmination of, and progress...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 7/2010
Mozart Opera Arias
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Gottfried von der Goltz | Sandrine Piau
Sandrine Piau’s pure‚ wellfocused yet warm soprano serves well in these Mozart arias. It is those in the early operas...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
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