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Britten Spring Symphony. Peter Grimes (excs)

Both when it firts came out as a single LP and later when it was included in HMV's box of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1986

Schubert Soirée

The two sets of dances are charming products of Schubert's mid-teenage years and provide Gidon Kremer with much food for...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Glass Noqoyqatsi

This is another colourful, barnstorming film score from Glass, and one that contains enough material of substance that it can...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2002

Brahms Orchestral Works

Here are two strongly contrasted readings of the First Symphony. Jiri Belohlavek, now in his mid-forties, is a well-established figure...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

Sonatas from Dresden

The exuberantly baroque city of Dresden provides the peg on which to hang some well-contrasted string sonatas by composers associated...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1999

Prokofiev/Janacek Violin Sonatas

Both players were born in 1960, Devos in Brussels where Hardy (originally from Baltimore) now lives. How long they have...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Mozart (Le) nozze di Figaro; Ravel Shéhérazade; Strauss Four Last songs

It was only really with Mélisande for Pierre Boulez and Countess Almaviva for Otto Klemperer that Elisabeth Söderström became a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004

Verdi Macbeth

However arresting the film for which this recording forms the soundtrack may be (see page 20), the set has to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987

Liszt Piano Sonata

With this recording Haiou Zhang, a young pianist trained in both China and Germany, celebrates Liszt year in masterly and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011

Bach St Matthew Passion

Having swept the board with their Award-winning Messiah, John Butt and the Dunedin Consort and Players proceed headlong into the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2008

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