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Skalkottas Chamber Works
The Skalkottas discography is dominated by the important series issued by BIS, making alternative versions the more welcome – not...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 5/2010
Mozart Die Zauberflöte
The Sawallisch recording of Die Zauberflote, made in the early 1970s, has not been generally available here before. Slightly surprisingly,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1988
Mussorgsky Picture and Exhibition;Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1
Gintaras Rinkevicius | Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra | Roger Muraro
The French pianist Roger Muraro’s discography includes the complete piano music of Messiaen on Accord, but here he shows his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2003
Verdi Rigoletto
This performance marked the return of Bjorling to the Met after a wartime break of four years spent mostly in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2000
Salve Reyna
Capella Savaria | Capilla Peñaflorida | Javier Sarasua | Josep Cabré
Capilla Penaflorida is a group based in the Basque region, with quite an extensive career behind it. It specialises in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 4/2000
Graupner Overtures & Cantata
(Das) Kleine Konzert | Barbara Schlick | Hein Meens | Hermann Max | Stephen Varcoe
Christoph Graupner was the second of two preferred choices – Telemann was the first – of the Leipzig authorities for...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1999
Bruckner Symphony No 4
Günter Wand | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
There is pedigree aplenty here. Günter Wand, whose affinity for Bruckner in general and the Fourth Symphony in particular is...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2007
Wind Chamber Music
Bo Sand | Ingrid Holck | Niels Eje | Selandia Ensemble
Familiar as we are with Debussy's Petite Suite in its original form for piano duet and the orchestral version by...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1990
Bach Works for Viola da gamba
Andrew Lawrence-King | Barbara Messmer | Hille Perl | Lee Santana | Veronika Skuplik
Bach for the gamba comes in the form of three sonatas with obbligato harpsichord, a Brandenburg Concerto and a small...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2000
Barry, G (The) Intelligence Park
Not too long ago the supporters of the New Complexity and the New Simplicity (incorporating the Holy Minimalists) were regularly...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2005
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