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Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works

As can be seen from the timing, this CD is remarkably generous and at 74 minutes one of the longest...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

Segovia – Complete Bach Recordings 1927-47

Segovia was not the first to adapt works of Bach to the guitar, a distinction that belongs to Francisco Tárrega...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/2002

Mozart Gran Partita

''A great wind piece of a very special kind'': that is how Mozart's Serenade for 13 instruments was described on...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1987

New Music with Guitar, Vol. 1

What the guitar suffers from is not so much a shortage of worthwhile repertory as one of players who will...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1987

Silvestrov Symphony No. 5; Postludium

Silvestrov’s Fifth is one of the best-kept secrets of the ex-Soviet symphonic repertoire. It was composed in 1980-82, and its...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Anne Sofie von Otter - Bach Arias

Deutsche Grammophon’s Bach compilations have not always represented the finest hours for the likes of Christine Schäfer, Thomas Quasthoff and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2009

Puccini Turandot

The great glories of this first recording of Puccini’s Turandot in English are the singing of Jane Eaglen in the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2002

European Lute Music Volume 2

Esaias Reusner learned the lute from his German father and is said also to have studied with a French lutenist...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Delius Fennimore & Gerda

Fennimore and Gerda is Delius’s last opera, and his most problematical: “three rather dreary people who have nothing to sing”...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1997

Coates, G Symphony No 15

Slow glissandi figure prominently in Gloria Coates’s music, as Kyle Gann points out in his perceptive notes to this disc....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 4/2008

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