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Berg Lulu

The promises of the Animal Trainer are more than usually hollow at the start of Christof Loy’s Lulu. He wants...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2011

Bolero - A Spanish Songbook

France and Italy are not the only Latin countries to have drawn the Russian imagination: at least since Glinka there...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1998

Bach Organ Sonatas

Neither Kay Johannsen nor Martin Lucker are particularly familiar names outside their native Germany, but both have something distinctive to...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1999

M-A.Charpentier Motets

As we approach the 350th anniversary of Charpentier's birth, record companies, with Erato in the vanguard, seem poised to make...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1992

Beethoven Emperor Concerto

This, as I wrote in my review of the LP, is a marvellous recording of a very great musician, still...

Reviewed in issue 12/1983

Geoffrey Burgon: Vocal Works

This is a hauntingly unusual record, one to attract not only admirers of Burgon's very approachable music and lovers of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1988

Petersen Speelstukken

David Petersen’s Speelstukken (literally, “pieces to play”) are a curious set of 12 virtuoso violin sonatas published in Amsterdam in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1998

Great European Organs, No.48

Here we have a magnificent recording of one of the truly Great European Organs. In Gerard Brooks, Priory have found...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1998

Shostakovich Ballet Suites Nos. 1 & 3; Jazz Suites Nos. 1 & 2

Interest in the lighter side of Shostakovich is growing and there is a strong case for opting for a comprehensive...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

(A) Portrait of Herbert von Karajan

With its excellent transfers of vintage EMI recordings, almost every one of these doubles is worth its asking price of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2000

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