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Grieg; Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

These performances are of rare musical and documentary value. Rubinstein recorded Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto with Stokowski in 1945 but the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1998

Petitgirard Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto

The most interesting piece here is Hamelin for solo cello and narrator, though the present recording omits the narration. Composer-conductor...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Kilar Missa Pro Pace

There is a tangible sense of occasion about this which makes it clear why so many people were ‘greatly stirred’...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2004

Briggs, D Mass for Notre Dame

David Briggs is an unashamed admirer of the school of 20th-century French organists/improvisers/composers and the influence of Dupré, Duruflé, Langlais...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 8/2010

Eötvös conducts Stockhausen

Now a composer of international standing, Peter Eötvös was long known primarily as a conductor of 20th-century repertoire, the fastidious...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2006

Wolf Lieder

This is the most satisfying solo disc Auger has made to date. Perhaps, not surprisingly, the challenge of Morike and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992

Mozart Così fan tutte

If my count is correct this makes the twenty-third version of this opera on my shelves, a fair comment on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996

Brahms Symphony 1 & Academic Festival Overture

A nobly characterized and finely paced Brahms First from this Basle-born conductor (I recall with enormous pleasure a toweringly cogent...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

Enrico Caruso Complete Published Recordings

Advertised as the complete Caruso, using the NoNoise technique, the Bayer edition is neither complete nor noiseless, and one is...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Bartók; Hindemith; Martinu Works for Viola and Orchestra

In the normal run of things I would have well and truly castigated any CD manufacturer who dared put out...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2007

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