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Shostakovich in person
André Cluytens | Dmitri Shostakovich | French Radio National Orchestra | Ludovic Vaillant
Shostakovich pursued a promising career as a pianist before he decided to concentrate on composing. He played Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
Puccini La Bohème
I suppose even bad recordings deserve a second chance. The trouble is they inspire treacherous thoughts, such as ''What a...
Reviewed in issue 2/1993
Ives Violin Sonatas, Nos 1-4
The four violin and piano sonatas are at the core of Ives’s chamber music output. The style oscillates because Ives...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2004
Gluck Alceste
The French version of Alceste has some of the most searing, soulful music Gluck ever wrote, consoling us for its...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1998
17th Century Bel Canto
Andrew King | Glenda Simpson | James Tyler | London Early Music Group | Paul Elliott
In keeping with the spirit that has characterized so many of Hyperion's enterprises, this recording (first issued in 1985) is...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 5/1989
Rota Volume II
Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The influences on Nino Rota’s music for The Godfather aren’t hard to identify – Stravinsky, Ravel, Puccini. It’s an ironic...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1998
Verdi Requiem
As ever with Harnoncourt, this performance is controversial. While marvelling at the exactness, beauty and reverence of the reading and...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2005
Nielsen Music for Wind Instruments
Whether or not you know Nielsen's Wind Quintet I do urge you to hear this new Schwann Lp recording is...
Reviewed in issue 2/1989
Claudio Arrau - Complete Pre-War Recordings
Here is a most valuable and long-overdue complete edition of Claudio Arrau’s pre-war recordings (1921-39). Until now, cherry-picking has been...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2000
Schoenberg The Early Tonal Years, 1894-1907
Sony Classical continue to ring the changes on their backlist of CBS Schoenberg recordings. Less than three years after issuing...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1996
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