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Works for Oboe
André Previn | Chamber Orchestra | John de Lancie | London Symphony Orchestra | Max Wilcox
John de Lancie has a place in musical history as the American soldier and Pittsburgh Symphony oboist who in 1945...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1991
Liszt piano works
Bartok wrote that he considered Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies to be his least successful works. He complained that the material used...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1987
Telemann Wind Concertos, Vol 5
Frankfurt La Stagione | Michael Schneider
I have no idea how many discs it takes to record all of Telemann’s wind concertos but if the other...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2011
Schnittke String Quartets Nos 2 & 3; Piano Quintet
The young, American, all-female Lark Quartet have been gathering prizes and critical encomia over the past ten years or so,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Bryars (A) Man in a Room, Gambling
November mists, unpeopled places along a northern coastline, ineffable melancholy, veiled nostalgia – all come spontaneously to mind as The...
Reviewed in issue 11/1997
French Works for Piano and Orchestra
Alicia de Larrocha | Lawrence Foster | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
There is no alternative account of the Faure Fantaisie in the CD catalogue, though, hopefully, it can only be a...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1987
Liszt Via crucis
Netherlands Chamber Choir | Reinbert de Leeuw
If anyone was tempted to doubt the sincerity of the Abbe Liszt's religious convictions, I sense that a hearing of...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1986
Purcell Anthems and Sacred Songs
Capriccio Stravagante | Chanticleer | Joseph Jennings
However indigenous Purcell’s reputation, compelling performances beyond these shores will only truly be achieved if the listener recognises that Purcell’s...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2003
Waltraud Meier - Portrait of a Singer
Semyon Bychkov | Torsten Kerl | Waltraud Meier | West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
This issue, a very generous offering, combines two separate films featuring the remarkable German singer, one who has encompassed most...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2003
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
It says something for an operatic recording if with the first bars and again at fairly regular intervals one finds...
Reviewed in issue 8/1987
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