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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
JOHNSTON String Quartets Nos 1, 5 & 10
Ben Johnston’s got to be some kind of genius. Anyone who can simultaneously make a string quartet sound like a...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011
Music for the Queen of Scots
Among the hardest challenges in all music must be to keep over an hour’s worth of recorder quartet-playing alive without...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011
SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios
“It would be idle to pretend they are among his best works, for they all date from the years when...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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