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Brahms Cycle I - Symphonies Nos 1-4

Bernstein’s Brahms gets off to an unlikely start. He continues to bow to the audience long after it has ceased...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 9/2008

J Strauss II Die Fledermaus

Carlos Kleiber is‚ for me‚ the outstanding Johann Strauss conductor of our time‚ finding grace and subtlety in the music...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2001

Puccini Tosca

In the many hours of discussion I had over the years with the late Walter Legge, he would quite often...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1985

Ferdinando Bertoni: Sacred Choral Works

This disc of sacred pieces by Ferdinando Bertoni takes us down paths hitherto barely if at all trodden by recording...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989

Borodin Symphony No. 2: Prince Igor - excs

Borodin (often as scored by other hands, it is true) usually gives every opportunity for a fine orchestra to declare...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Eisler Deutsche Sinfonie, Op 50

Eisler's Deutsche Sinfonie, an avowedly anti-Fascist sequence of mini-cantatas and instrumental movements, is his magnum opus. Why then have so...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Mahler Symphony No 2, Resurrection

Barbirolli was scarcely taking coals to Newcastle when he conducted three performances of the Resurrection Symphony in Berlin in June...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2004

Whitacre - Light & Gold

Memo to all choral directors: if you still haven’t been bitten by the Whitacre bug, then beg, borrow or buy...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2010

Mozart Serenades K239 & K525, and Divertimento K247

Mozart’s Salzburg friend and patroness Countess Antonia Lodron was evidently a far more sympathetic figure than her brother, the stern...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2006

Schmidt Orchestral Works

Writing in The Symphony (ed. Robert Simpson, Penguin Books: 1967) the late Harold Truscott made out a strong case for...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1996

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