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Review of Two Sides of George Gershwin

Two Sides of George Gershwin

(Anonymous) Orchestra | George Gershwin | Nathaniel Shilkret | Paul Whiteman | Victor Symphony Orchestra

Halcyon

Excellent to have all this archival material on a single CD now. The performances of Rhapsody in Blue and An...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1991

Review of Wagner Siegfried

Wagner Siegfried

Artur Bodanzky | Eduard Habich | Emanuel List | Friedrich Schorr | Karl Laufkötter | Kerstin Thorborg | Kirsten Flagstad | Lauritz Melchior | New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Stella Andreva

Music & Arts

Here is a special treat for Wagnerians of all ages. As the more experienced among us have long averred, Wagner...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992

Review of Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos and Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos and Violin Concerto

Charles Dutoit | Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Kyung Wha Chung | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Victoria Postnikova | Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Double Decca

If your main priorities in Tchaikovsky concertos are visceral excitement, barnstorming virtuosity and nifty tempos, then this is probably not...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Review of Mozart Piano Concertos

Mozart Piano Concertos

English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate | Mitsuko Uchida

Philips

All three of these players offer a particularly good performance of the E flat Concerto, K449, a work which often...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/1989

Review of Ravel Orchestral Works

Ravel Orchestral Works

Boston Symphony Orchestra | French National Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein | Marilyn Horne | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Schola Cantorum | Seiji Ozawa

Erato

Less than 12 months separated the Ballets Russes premieres in Paris of Daphnis and The Rite of Spring. If the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1993

Review of Mozart Don Giovanni

Mozart Don Giovanni

Alesxandra Deshorties | Daniel Harding | Gilles Cachemaille | Gudjon Oskarsson | Lisa Larsson | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Mark Padmore | Mireille Delunsch | Nathan Berg | Peter Mattei

Bel Air Classiques

I reviewed the CD from the second season of this production (Virgin, 8/00). In 2002 Daniel Harding remained in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2006

Review of Wellesz Symphonies Nos 2 and 9

Wellesz Symphonies Nos 2 and 9

Gottfried Rabl | Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

CPO

The Second Symphony (1947-8) may come as a big surprise to those who know Egon Wellesz only from his later...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2004

Review of French Chamber Works

French Chamber Works

Prometheus Ensemble

ASV

A cordial welcome to this release, which makes a good impression at once with its sound, recorded in a church...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989

Review of Imbrie Requiem.

Imbrie Requiem.

Alan Feinberg | Australian Chamber Orchestra | George Rothman | Lisa Saffer | New York Virtuoso Singers | Pieter Wispelwey | Richard Tognetti | Riverside Symphony Orchestra

Bridge

Born in New York city and now resident in Berkeley, California, Andrew Imbrie (b 1921) penned his 1984 Requiem in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2000

Review of Dame Eva Turner - The Collected Recordings

Dame Eva Turner - The Collected Recordings

Anonymous Organists(s) | Anonymous Pianist(s) | (Anonymous) Orchestra | Astra Desmond | BBC Symphony Orchestra | BBC Theatre Orchestra | Dino Borgioli | Elsie Suddaby | Eva Turner | Frank Titterton

Pearl

‘Turner, Eva, soprano. Recording exclusively for Columbia.’ Thus ran her entry in the light-blue ‘celebrity’ catalogue of 1938, which listed...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2000

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