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Pärt Alina

The problem here, if you can call it a problem, is a marked lack of musical 'activity'. Arvo Part eschews...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Hummel String Quartets

Hummel only wrote three string quartets, and here they are, played by the Delme Quartet with a nice appreciation of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1992

D. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

This is a fascinating compilation of Scarlatti sonatas which Wanda Landowska recorded in 1934, 1939 and 1940. And it is...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1994

Georg Solti - In Rehearsal

These rehearsal sequences give a vivid idea of Sir Georg Solti’s approach in his mid-fifties as he was emerging as...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2004

Leonie Rysanek - Operatic Recital

I am writing this a few days after Rysanek made her emotional farewell to the opera house (as Klytemnestra in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1996

Hildegard von Bingen Vespers

Here, at last, is Hildegard sung by Benedictine moniales! They’re from St Hildegard’s Abbey, Eibingen, a modern abbey, founded around...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 5/1998

Leoncavallo Pagliacci; Mascagani Cavalleria Rusticana

The old black Columbia albums were not a pretty sight, and those for 10-inch 78s had a particularly dispiriting look...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2006

Mendelssohn Orchestral Works

This record comes with an immaculate pedigree—an orchestra that has won itself the highest possible reputation for the performance of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1989

Scriabin Piano Works

Music critics become so accustomed to the emergence of new young pianists heralded as remarkable that a certain cynicism is...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994

Elgar Organ Works

It was the English organist and composer Percy Whitlock who, in 1937, declared the Harrison and Harrison instrument in St...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 8/2010

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