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English Orchestral Songs
City of London Sinfonia | Richard Hickox | Stephen Varcoe
This is an attractive disc, comprising two dozen English songs with orchestral accompaniment, all (except the Finzi cycle) composed in...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
Brahms (4) Serious Songs; Dvorák Requiem
Two redoubtable performances of Dvorák’s Requiem have survived in the catalogue down the years, sometimes returning in various different guises:...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2007
Brahms Cello Sonatas
Stephen Hough | Steven Isserlis
In 1984 Steven Isserlis made excellent recordings for Hyperion of the Brahms sonatas with Peter Evans (4/86 – nla); this...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2006
Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works
Cleveland Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Will there be a new fashion in coupling Brahms symphonies with overtures? Dvorak overtures? This is the second First Symphony...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli | Ettore Gracis | Philharmonia Orchestra
Michelangeli’s imperious and fastidious art invites constant reassessment. He can bring a touch of frost and masterfulness to Debussy’s most...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1998
BRUCKNER Symphony No 3
Orchestre Métropolitain | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
I came to Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Bruckner Third with his bravura Schumann symphony cycle singing and dancing inside my head still,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015
R. Strauss & Weber Opera Highlights
Giuseppe Sinopoli | Staatskapelle Dresden
In his complete recording of Salome for DG, made in Berlin (9/91), Sinopoli has already shown us how warmly sympathetic...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1997
BRUCKNER Symphony No 7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Donald Runnicles
There are those who attend the opening of this piece as they might the opening of Parsifal – slowly, hieratically....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013
The Wise Virgins
Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra
These vintage Boult performances are captured in irrepressibly vivid, mono sound from the first half of the 1950s. In point...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1997
Prokofiev Piano Works
London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas | Vladimir Feltsman
Hardly a month goes by without some dazzling player offering us one or other of the Prokofiev violin concertos (Sitkovetzky,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1989
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