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Salieri Requiem
Gulbenkian Chorus | Gulbenkian Orchestra | Lawrence Foster
At the end of his life Gluck spoke of Salieri as his only true heir. Spasmodic recordings of his operas...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2010
Piano Works for Three Hands
Younger readers should perhaps be reminded of the international reputation long enjoyed by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick as a...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1989
Sviatoslav Richter Piano Recital
Two surpassingly great performances here—the Scriabin and Prokofiev sonatas—some delight fully crisp Visions fugitives, and some excessively literal, though still...
Reviewed in issue 9/1988
Works for Cello and Piano
Martha Argerich | Mischa Maisky
Schumann's Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102 are engaging enough, and on Nimbus Alexander Michejew responds well to the changing moods,...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 2 SCHUBERT Impromptus
Until now, the Georgian pianist Elisso Bolkvadze has recorded primarily for the Sony Classical Infinity Digital and Cascavelle labels. On...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2015
Wagner Parsifal
Transfer to CD leaves me in no doubt that this is the most moving and satisfying account of Parsifal ever...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1986
Bloch Macbeth
More than 20 composers have written operas on the Scottish play‚ almost all of them (Verdi being the great exception)...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Handel Rodelinde
This is an issue of considerable interest to the Handelian, although the interest is more historical than musical. Rodelinda was...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2002
JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (Hahn)
For all the appreciable virtues offered by recent contenders in the Bach Sonatas and Partitas field, I cannot think of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018
BARTÓK Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Tetzlaff)
Christian Tetzlaff | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu
Ondine’s new Bartók CD is an out-and-out winner; but, having in the past praised numerous versions of these two works,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2018
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