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Maderna Don Perlimplin

Bruno Maderna’s radiophonic opera, based on a text by Federico Garcia Lorca, won an Italia Prize in 1962. It tells...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1997

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2; Partita

Another true Boult classic. This 1952 account of the London remains amongst the finest ever committed to disc, possessing a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Alfred Brendel

Here are two towering if sharply contrasted performances recorded in Paris in 1967 and 1970 set side by side in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003

Sweelinck Keyboard Works

This generous disc of keyboard works falls squarely on the shoulders of the kaleidoscopic organ of the Pieterskerk in Leiden,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003

Brahms German Requiem (version with 2 pianos)

Brahms himself made the two-piano arrangement of the accompaniment for his German Requiem but I cannot think that he would...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2006

Bach. Violin Concertos

Violinists are becoming more proprietary towards work which we believe that Bach originally wrote for their instrument. A good thing....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

Ligeti: Instrumental Works

If it's Continuum you're after, hard luck. Ligeti, perhaps tempting fate, specifies that the piece should not last longer than...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

La Calinda - A Delius Festival

A Delius festival without Beecham? Strange thought, but no composer's wagon should be hitched to one conductor's star, and it...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Volodos plays Liszt

Arcadi Volodos makes such infrequent visits to the recording studio that rarity value manufactures an extra frisson of anticipation with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007

Massenet Manon

Here is another classic set happily refurbished by EMI. Indeed, together with the Werther recorded some 20 years earlier, it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990

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