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Martinu Fresces de piero;Double Concerto
Charles Mackerras | Jan Bouse | Josef Ruzícka | Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Double Concerto and Les fresques are among Martinu's most satisfying works: behind the cosmopolitan, 'conservative-modern' lingua franca of their...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1985
Schiff plays Schumann
Of these three works, only the Arabeske is otherwise available on CD—coupled with the Etudes symphoniques from Pollini on DG....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1986
Mussorgsky Songs, Volume 4
Semion Skigin | Sergei Leiferkus | Vovka Ashkenazy
As AB has pointed out, reviewing previous volumes in this series (2/95, 12/95 and 12/96), Leiferkus enjoys himself immensely with...
Reviewed in issue 5/1997
Bax Orchestral & Vocal Works
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Jean Rigby | Margaret Fingerhut | Vernon Handley
A feast for Baxians everywhere. The glorious tune that dominates the 1916 tone-poem In Memoriam will be familiar to many...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999
(The) Black Madonna - Music from Llibre Vermell & Cantigas de Santa Maria
Belinda Sykes | Bernhard Landauer | Ensemble Unicorn | Michael Posch
This Vienna-based ensemble, specializing in early music, has recorded a delightful selection of songs honouring the Black Madonna of Montserrat,...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1998
Sheng Silent Temple
Bright Sheng | Nicholas Tzavaras | Shanghai Quartet | WeiGang Li | Wu Man
Part of the advantage of being ‘the Chinese Bartók’, as the Shanghai-born composer Bright Sheng was dubbed some time ago,...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 8/2003
Chopin Polonaises
The 32-year-old Russian pianist Eugéne Mursky is a winner of many first prizes on the competition circuit and in the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2007
Bruckner Symphony No 5. Te Deum
When Bernard Haitink's earlier, Concertgebouw recording of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony appeared in June 1972 (Philips—nla), Deryck Cooke thought it the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989
Bach St Matthew Passion
The name of Sir Georg Solti is not, perhaps, one of those that springs most readily to mind in connection...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 4/1988
Verdi (Il) trovatore
I found this a far more satisfying experience than I had expected, and one to be preferred to its most...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2004
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