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Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
The six CD versions of the Symphonie fantastique listed above present various problems of selection, difficult of summary. In brief...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985
Piano Duets - Children's Games
It is good to hear Bizet's Jeux d'enfants in its original piano-duet form, and all 12 pieces at that. Isabel...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1992
Mendelssohn/Schumann Piano Trios
There is value for money here in that we're given not only Mendelssohn's two piano trios but also Schumann's first...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992
Rachmaninov Symphony 2
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Vladimir Ashkenazy
In my original review of this dramatic, totally unsentimental reading of a now-favourite symphony I had reservations about the digial...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1983
Trails of Creativity 1918 - 1938: Music From Between the Wars
David Frühwirth | Henri Sigfridsson
There are seven première recordings here, and two pieces that are not – the Korngold and Weill suites – are...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2003
Mozart String Quintets, Vol. 1
In the classical chamber repertory, more than anywhere else, period-instrument performers find the going hard, competitively speaking: we are so...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1993
Haydn String Quartets, Op 33
Every repeat – except for the long first-movement second half of No 5 – is observed. But forget thoughts of...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2009
Weill (Die) Dreigroschenoper
The eightside selection from Die Dreigroschenoper‚ made by Telefunken in December 1930‚ was the first major recording of Weill’s music....
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Handel Atalanta
This is a welcome issue, not only because Atalanta has never previously been recorded, but because almost all that is...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1986
Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
Berne Symphony Orchestra | Peter Maag
Even more than I expected, this budget-price CD brings out what a supreme Mendelssohnian Peter Maag is. Many years ago...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1986
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