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Georg Solti - In Rehearsal
Georg Solti | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
These rehearsal sequences give a vivid idea of Sir Georg Solti’s approach in his mid-fifties as he was emerging as...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2004
Franco Corelli – (The) Unknown Recordings
In his book Sopranos, Mezzos, Tenors, Basses and Other Friends (Crown: 1995), Schuyler Chapin, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2004
Mondonville: Motets
This is a welcome issue on two counts. First, the performances are in the hands of a director who well...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1988
Maxwell Davies Strathclyde Concertos
Each of these concertos has a sort of programme, rather an enigmatic one in both cases, but in each it...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1994
Poulenc Choral & Organ Works
This is a wonderfully vivid and urgent performance of Poulenc's Organ Concerto by a soloist who was particularly associated with...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1987
Aho Symphonic Dances
Kroumata Percussion Ensemble | Lahti Symphony Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä
Kalevi Aho’s Symphonic Dances (2001) bear the subtitle ‘Hommage à Uuno Klami’ – and therein lies the clue to the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2004
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
Though not quite such an obvious recommendation as the Milanov/Bjorling Aida reviewed below, this set is well worth hearing and...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1988
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1; Symphony No.7; CoriolanOverture (DVD)
Georg Solti | London Symphony Orchestra | Murray Perahia
Two – very different – concerts‚ the first a 1987 Barbican gala‚ well received at the time‚ with Solti and...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
Arnell String Quartets
The first three of Richard Arnell’s six string quartets date from his sojourn in New York City. Composed in 1939,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2011
Tosti Songs
Ben Heppner | London Symphony Orchestra (Members)
The pen poised to write a large N for ‘No’ changes direction and forms a Y. That of itself is...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2004
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