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PIZZETTI String Quartets

Fifteen years after its release on Marco Polo, this remains the only recording of Pizzetti’s quartets, by a Hungarian ensemble...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2011

Music Makes a City

Many of us, I’m sure, still own First Edition LPs – grey sleeves with round gold labels stuck on the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011

THOMMESSEN Veslemøy synsk

Arne Garborg’s epic poem-cycle Haugtussa (‘The Maid from under the Mountain’) is a classic of Norwegian literature, its four volumes...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011

Slavic Opera Arias

Stoyanova’s second recital disc for Orfeo lies more on the soprano’s ‘home’ territory and includes two arias by fellow Bulgarian...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012

The Berlin Recordings

This 10-disc box is Piano Classics’ most ambitious project to date, a tribute to a pianist who for many years...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

WAGNER DER RING

As perspectives on the Solti/Culshaw enterprise lengthen, and critical reactions are kept alert by the regular appearance of new, or...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

STRAVINSKY The Firebird. Petrushka. The Rite of Spring. Pulcinella

Only last year, Yakov Kreizberg had been appointed artistic director of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. This splendid Stravinsky album is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2011

Brubeck Plays Bernstein

By 1960, ideas of what might constitute orchestral jazz were gathering force. Brubeck and Bernstein’s label Columbia had already released...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies

In providing us with this vital, keenly played and always engaging new period-instrument Beethoven cycle, Emmanuel Krivine is effectively challenging...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2011

TURINA Complete Trios

Ironically, Turina’s conversion to his native musical roots took place not in Spain but in Paris. Arriving in what was...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2011

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