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Delius Fennimore und Gerda

There is a strong kinship between this recording and Meredith Davies’s 20-year-old account, whose reissue I recently welcomed (EMI, 9/97)....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1997

Haydn Cello Concertos

Barely 22, Gautier Capucon plays the cello with the control and wisdom of a much older musician. The lightness of...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 7/2003

Legani Caprices, Op 20; Fantasia, Op 19

Legnani’s 36 Caprices are uniquely adventurous, varied and technically demanding in the nineteenth-century repertory, hence their neglect by today’s recording...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1998

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music

“A Dream come true” is the ingenious title of one of the booklet’s essays here. Perhaps surprisingly, it doesn’t claim...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998

Stravinsky Orchestral music

As I said when reviewing the LP, this is another demonstration disc from Decca in a work that has become...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1987

Coloratura Opera Arias

Though her name seems to be on everybody’s lips just now, this young and eminently successful American soprano has not...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

With the Paganini Variations and the Second Concerto Kocsis completes his journey through Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra. Collectors...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1986

Liszt Années de Pèlerinage

Listening to Liszt’s musical description of his travels through Switzerland and Italy affords the same kind of pleasure as reading...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2009

Verdi Nabucco - highlights

These highlights from three fairly recent DG sets reflect the merits or otherwise of the performances as a whole. Although...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1984

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Arnold Whittall has observed that the difference between classicism and romanticism is, in essence, a change of emphasis. Moreover, the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

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