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Berg Orchestral & Chamber Works
Anton Webern | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Galimir Quartet | Louis Krasner
This is an extraordinary issue of more than mere documentary interest. Older readers may remember hearing during the war Louis...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1991
Bruckner Symphony No 7
Georg Tintner | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Since there are no recommendable budget, let alone super-budget recordings of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony (the two listed above are both...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1999
Conti Cantate con istromenti, Nos 1 - 4
Ars Antiqua Austria | Bernarda Fink | Gunar Letzbor
A ubiquitous Viennese figure in the early 1700s, Francesco Conti was one of several gifted Italian Baroque composers who settled...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2003
Rachmaninov/Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos
Charles Dutoit | Jorge Bolet | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit conducts the famous version of the Tchaikovsky B flat minor Concerto for Argerich on DG, but he has...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1988
French Choral Works
Good recordings of Faure's Requiem, whether (as here) in the version of 1883 or in the full orchestral score of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Verdi La traviata
This live performance of 1939 reminds us what we have lost and gained in performing Verdi—and perhaps all opera. You...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992
Wagner Parsifal
Productions of Parsifal with no forest and no Grail temple are par for today’s course but can be particularly alienating...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2007
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 1 - 4
András Schiff embarks on a Beethoven cycle recorded live in chronological order, to be released in eight separate volumes over...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2005
Englund Orchestral Works
Jorma Panula | Niklas Sivelöv | Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
The late Einar Englund is, to my mind, the finest Finnish symphonist between Sibelius and Kokkonen, and the Blackbird Symphony...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2000
Rossini Opera Arias
When a singer as remarkable as this establishes himself as more than a seven-day—indeed a tenyear wonder, even the most...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
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