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Messiaen Eclairs sur l'au-delà
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Rattle
Any review of Messiaen’s last finished work has to take account that the composer wrote it not for a French...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 13/2004
Debussy Songs
Christopher Maltman | Malcolm Martineau
Francisco Courcelle (or Corselli, as he was sometimes known – and so named on the disc sleeve) was born to...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 5/2003
Mozart/Busoni Complete Piano Transcriptions
This is the first time anyone has put all Busoni’s Mozart-based compositions for solo piano on a single disc, though...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2007
Works for Piano and Orchestra
RCA's series of Rubinstein reissues are providing some immensely invigorating listening for me, and in their CD format I am...
Reviewed in issue 10/1987
Rimsky-Korsakov & Prokofiev Orchestral Works
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Takuo Yuasa
It is appropriate that Haitink's much praised 1972 Philips recording of Scheherazade should be included for comparison here, for the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991
Bach St Matthew Passion
Non-‘period’ versions of the St Matthew Passion are something of a rarity these days though not in the pantheon of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999
Massenet Piano works
Aldo Ciccolini | Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra | Sylvain Cambreling
The best things about this LP are the spirited and superlatively lucid playing of Ciccolini and the clarity of the...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1987
Taverner/Tallis Song and Mass
George Guest | St John's College Choir, Cambridge
Ten years after the choir of New College Oxford, made their pioneering recording for CRD of Taverner's Mass, the Western...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/1990
Elgar Orchestral Works
Andrew Davis | BBC Symphony Orchestra
These are four of the best Elgar performances on disc to come my way for some time. First, the recording...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Sullivan (The) Yeomen of the Guard; Trial by Jury
Between them, The Yeomen of the Guard and Trial by Jury contain all that is best in Sullivan’s music for...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1996
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