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Ikon 2
Holst Singers | Stephen Layton
It is 13 years since the Holst Singers and Stephen Layton released “Ikon” (8/97), placing pre-Revolution Russian sacred works alongside...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2010
BRAHMS Symphony No 4. Hungarian Dances
From the first, there has been debate over how Brahms’s tragic Fourth Symphony is best performed. The logically minded Hans...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2015
The Stokowski Sound - Orchestral Transcriptions
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel
It was Stokowski and Walt Disney's Fantasia which combined to inspire my initial indoctrination to classical music and in the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1988
Virtuoso Cello Encores
Maria Kliegel | Raimund Havenith
As that time-honoured cliche suggests, one cannot judge a book, or indeed a CD, by its cover, and the rather...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 9/1992
CASELLA Symphony No 1. Symphonic Fragments
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda’s Casella reappraisal for Chandos, among his most significant achievements to date, has radically shifted our perspectives on one...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
Virtuoso Guitar Transcriptions
If any guitarist in this country has faster fingers than Nicola Hall I have yet to hear him/her, and perhaps...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992
(The) Complete Leopold Godowsky, Vol 1
Leopold Godowsky | Leopold Jnr Godowsky
All 26 titles Leopold Godowsky recorded for Columbia Graphophone between 1913-16 fit neatly on to the first disc in this...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2005
Café Fiddle
Fifteen popular violin encores composed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which, as Dennis D Rooney reminds us...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2010
Rachmaninov 24 Preludes
Whoever may have it in mind to improve upon previous attempts to chart a way through the history of recorded...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2000
Martha Argerich and Friends
Martha Argerich | Mischa Maisky | Nelson Freire | Nicholas Economou
Goodness knows how many CDs have been issued under the same title, but this is different – a filmed concert...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2004
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