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Bach Goldberg Variations (String Trio Arr)
Julian Rachlin | Mischa Maisky | Nobuko Imai
Dimitri Sitkovetsky’s string trio arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations ingenuously deals with such challenges as how to partition judiciously two-part...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2007
Dvorák: Symphonies 7-9
Minnesota Orchestra | Neville Marriner
The essence of Marriner's performance of the New World is shown at the very opening, where he creates an elegiac...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985
Arnold Overtures
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Rumon Gamba
Concerts are notoriously short these days, too often with only a pair of works and seldom an overture. I notice...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2005
Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Orchestral Works
Andrew Litton | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Here is another of those extraordinary Virgin bargain boxes, offered at an astonishingly low price (six well-filled CDs for well...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Officium
Hilliard Ensemble | Jan Garbarek
The play between ancient chant and structured jazz-style improvisation creates a sort of spiritual time warp where past and present...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
Schubert String Quintet
Alban Berg Qt | Heinrich Schiff
New recordings of Schubert's quintet are almost a commonplace these days which, considering the extraordinary individuality and beauty of the...
Reviewed in issue 10/1983
Herbert - Orchestral Music, Vol. 3
Keith Brion | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Victor Herbert’s output was large but uneven. The Auditorium Festival March that opens this collection is one work I imagine...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/2000
Brahms Deutsches Requiem
Gundula Janowitz | Herbert von Karajan | José Van Dam | Vienna Singverein
Good conductors tend to have their hinterlands – works they know well but would never touch themselves – and Karajan’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2008
Martin Choral Works
Written in the aftermath of World War II, Golgotha is the sacred counterpart to Tippett’s A Child of Our Time,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998
Falla Ballet music
Carlo Maria Giulini | Philharmonia Orchestra
These are not the most earthily robust accounts of these two ballet scores on record, nor the most physically exciting,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987
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