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The French Connection
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner | Osian Ellis
These performances are beautifully recorded with, in the case of Le tombeau de Couperin, CD heightening one's appreciation of Ravel's...
Reviewed in issue 2/1985
Prokofiev Orchestral Works
Neeme Järvi | Philharmonia Orchestra
Here is a very well-planned record of less familiar but vintage orchestral Prokofiev that provides a highly stimulating appendix to...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1993
Kabalevsky Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2
Dmitry Yablonsky | In-Ju Bang | Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Unsurprisingly for a student piece, the first of Kabalevsky’s three piano concertos is a talented blend of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2006
Pfitzner Lieder, Vol 2
I had a few quibbles about the early and not quite mature songs that CPO included in Vol. 1 of...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999
A Varietie of Lute Lessons
A Varietie of Lute Lessons, compiled by Robert Dowland, was the last book of lute tablature to be published (1610)...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/2000
Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 and Lieder
Ann Murray | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Stephen Kovacevich | Wolfgang Sawallisch
Brahms's song of the dying girl ''Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer'' recalls with tender pathos the ghostly half-remembered outline of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1994
Satie Piano Works
I began listening to this collection somewhat irritably, but this soon gave way to admiration and a fascinated search through...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994
Guerrero Hispalensis
Ensemble Fontegara | La Trulla de Bozes | Musica Ficta | Raúl Mallavibarrena
Guerrero’s discography receives a significant boost with these discs, and the promise of more to come. The Spanish ensemble Musica...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2006
Handel Alcina
The late‚ acerbically trenchant critic Hans Keller chose an uncharacteristically mild adjective when he described opera production as one of...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Barber/Ives String Quartets
Excellent to have a new recording of these Ives classics from a major ensemble. The First Quartet (1896) is a...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1993
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