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Shostakovich Orchestral Works
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Ashkenazy's new Shostakovich Tenth stakes a strong claim to the centre ground, and given its depth of feeling, its consistent...
Reviewed in issue 1/1992
Veracini Overtures & Concertos, Vol 2
Accademia I Filarmonici | Alberto Martini
Acknowledged as one of the finest violinists of the 18th century, known for an almost wilful independence of mind, considered...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000
Mozart String Quartets
Following their marvellous debut recording, of late Haydn quartets (2/90), the Mosaiques Quartet now give us the first instalment in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1992
Barber Vanessa
Vanessa, the first of Barber's two full-scale operas, was staged at the Met in New York in 1958. This recording...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1990
Offenbach Overtures & Ballet Music
Antonio de Almeida | Philharmonia Orchestra
Barely a handful of Offenbach's over 90 operettas can be said to be even relatively well known to today's public,...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1988
Brahms String Quartets 1 & 3
Not until he was 40 did the self-critical Brahms feel he'd produced a string quartet worthy of publication. It's essentially...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1994
Czech Orchestral works
Charles Mackerras | Pro Arte Orchestra
I remember the original Pye/Nixa mono LP (1/60) very well; I can still see the crude cinemascopic sleeve design, and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1991
Beethoven Symphony 6 & Leonore 3
Saito Kinen Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa
This is a Pastoral of an altogether special pedigree and temper, easy of movement, gracious of gesture, exquisitely finished. It...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: /2000
Terzakis Chamber Works
Dimitri Terzakis’s undemonstrative fusion of Greek traditional elements with post-war western techniques gradually takes shape in the works featured here....
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
Stanford Chamber Music
David Adams | Gould Piano Trio
The First of Stanford’s three piano trios dates from 1889 and bears a dedication to his good friend, the pianist...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2011
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