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Sibelius Symphonies Nos 2 & 6

Readers will recall the acclaim that greeted the Sibelius cycle Sir Colin Davis and the LSO gave at the Barbican...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1995

(The) Lyrical Clarinet

Michael Collins here follows up “The Virtuoso Clarinet” (12/10), his first disc as an exclusive Chandos artist, with this contrasted...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2011

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 1 and 6

Jarvi's continuing cycle of the Prokofiev symphonies with the SNO is proving to be one of the most absorbing and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1986

Great Operatic Arias, Volume 5

Lovely, lovely record, and that wretched, inevitable little word ‘but’ had better be admitted immediately and sent on its way....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Mendelssohn String Quartets

I'm not sure that Op. 44 No. 1 in D or No. 3 in E flat count amongst the very...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993

Angels' Visits

Mid-nineteenth-century American WASPS were, as Richard Jackson puts it in his lengthy and scholarly notes to this issue, ''eager to...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1994

Debussy; Dutilleux; Ravel Orchestral Works

This recording culminates in quite the most exciting account of Ravel’s La valse that I have heard, the electricity of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2008

R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

For its debut on CD, Ariadne auf Naxos receives a bright, clear DG recording, notably well balanced and in a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

By the end of 1991 (Prokofiev's centenary year) we're going to be so spoilt for good Prokofiev recordings that it's...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1991

Schumann Piano Sonata No 3; (3) Romances; Fantasie

These are safe and dependable performances of music that cries out for greater romantic ardour and poetic commitment. Safety does...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2010

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