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Songs of Desire
Larissa Gergieva | Olga Borodina
The trouble with confining this selection to so-called ''Songs of Desire'' is that it limits the range, more than such...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1995
Tango Song and Dance
André Previn | Anne-Sophie Mutter | Lambert Orkis
‘Should we regard this CD as a symbolic celebration of your marriage?’ asks the interviewer. No, says Previn, suggesting that...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2003
Tubin Symphonies Nos 9-11
Arvo Volmer | Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Although the high point of Tubin’s symphonic output lies with the middle-period works, Nos 5-8, the final trio show that...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2004
Rimsky-Korsakov Complete Songs
When someone produces the major modern critical biography of Rimsky-Korsakov that is so long overdue, significant place will have to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1993
Bruckner Symphony No 8
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Simone Young
Bruckner’s mighty Eighth, the ne plus ultra of his achievement as a symphonist, took three years to make and a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009
Whitlock Organ Works
The more I hear Whitlock’s Organ Sonata the more convinced I am that this is one of the unsung masterpieces...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1996
Daugherty Metropolis Symphony; Bizarro
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman
It’s a bird, it’s a plane... holy skyscrapers, it’s a symphony by Michael Daugherty! Daugherty trades in American mythology. Elvis,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1996
Borodin/Dvorák/Shostakovich String Quartets
Classic fM’s The Full Works CDs set out to provide non-specialist music lovers with key repertory in decent new recordings...
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
Bach Violin Concertos
First impressions suggest a high-energy, tightly accented approach, “period”-schooled while retaining an element of modern-instrument intensity, mostly in the slow...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2006
Hindemith/Walton Orchestral Works
Cleveland Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy | George Szell | Philadelphia Orchestra
Although Ormandy's 1962 recording of the Mathis der Maler Symphony has taken three decades to reach these shores, this is...
Reviewed in issue 4/1994
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