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Orff Carmina burana
Muti's 1980 LP recording of Carmina burana was widely used as a hi-fi demonstration record when it first appeared; remarkable...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985
Gibbons Choral and Organ Music
Jeremy Summerly | Laurence Cummings | Oxford Camerata
The Oxford Camerata continue their popular series of recordings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English music with this representative selection of...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1996
Shostakovich Symphony No 11
Mstislav Rostropovich | Washington National Symphony Orchestra
To dismiss a recording of a 65-minute symphony on the basis of one note would not seem very intelligent. But...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
Bach Sonata No 1 BWV1001; Partita No 1 BWV 1002; Stravinsky Suite Italienne
How does one parse music that flows in an endless stream of notes with nary a pause for a breath?...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2005
Stokowski Spectacular
Leopold Stokowski | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Sidney Sax
Edward Greenfield gave this issue something of a rave review when it first appeared in LP format. He had reservations...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Cleveland Orchestra | Lorin Maazel
It was George Szell who made the Cleveland Orchestra into a highly responsive virtuoso body, and when he died in...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Wolf Italian Songbook
Christoph Prégardien | Hilko Dumno | Julia Kleiter
One of the wonders of the age was the full house which invariably assembled at London’s Festival Hall when the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2011
Lassus Cantiones Sacrae
Ghent Collegium Vocale | Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe has few peers as a Lassus specialist: he is responsible for one of the finest Lassus recordings, a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2009
Haydn Symphonies Nos 102 & 104
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate
Yet another outstanding coupling of late Haydn symphonies given extremely good sound. Only in January was I greatly enjoying Solti's...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1987
Brahms; Demopoulos; Mussorgsky Piano Works
Panayiotis Demopoulos is a young Greek composer-pianist who shows himself in this sharply contrasted recital to be an exceptionally sensitive...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006
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