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Echoes of Time

The new-found popularity of Shostakovich’s greatest concerto has engendered a flood of state-of-the-art recordings but few if any are finer...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2011

Barber Toccata Festiva; Poulenc; Petit Organ Concertos

course there is great scope for virtuosity too‚ and under Leppard’s firm but generous direction both Gillian Weir and the...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Haydn Symphonies Nos 82 - 87 (Paris Symphonies)

When the members of a Parisian concert society commissioned a set of symphonies from Haydn in the mid-1780s they would...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2005

Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride

It is no compliment to the production to say that it should be seen in conjunction with the bonus film...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2003

Blasco de Nebra Sonatas and Pastorela

You may well imagine that Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist of Seville Cathedral at the time of his death in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2004

Shostakovich Symphony No.14, etc

Aptly, the Mussorgsky cycle in Shostakovich's orchestration precedes the symphony. Shostakovich himself made it clear that this darkly memorable cycle...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1994

Ponchielli (La) Gioconda

In the late 1990s when Domingo was giving interviews to Helena Matheopoulos in preparation for their book, My Operatic Roles...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003

Leon Fleischer - Two Hands

This verges on the unbelievable. Leon Fleisher, now 75, who for more than 35 years couldn’t use his right hand...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2004

Ebony Band - Polish Masterpieces

The bold claim that this trio of unknown works by two neglected Polish composers active around 1940 are masterpieces comes...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2010

The Art of Frida Leider

Year after year they came back, the Covent Garden public, to see and hear Leider do very much the same...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

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