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Sinopoli Lou Salomé

Giuseppe Sinopoli was a fairly prolific composer before his international conducting career began to take off in the 1980s. He...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Three Journeys Through Dark Landscapes - Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, Vol 4

Last things first. The final volume of these valuable Channel 4 documentaries is also the least cogent. As Simon Rattle...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2006

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

The version by Meens comes into direct comparison with the Haefliger CD (Claves/Pinnacle). They are remarkably similar in outlook and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Heifetz plays Beethoven & Brahms Concertos

You may think that Reiner starts the opening tutti at an extraordinarily quick speed—until you remember that he is going...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Handel Amadigi di Gaula

Handel’s fifth London opera Amadigi (1715) is a tender study of four people suffering in a love quadrangle, of whom...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2008

Sir Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

When Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was premiered in Leningrad in 1945, one Russian critic compared it with Walt Disney's Bambi. It...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1991

Fritz Kreisler Early Recordings

There is more variety of timbre and ensemble on this CD than might be supposed. The lute features in all...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Oboe Collection

This is an extraordinary and fascinating collection of music for a number of different kinds of instruments that, being conical...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1987

Schubert Chamber Works

Berezovsky and the Covent Garden players give a brisk and lively account of the Trout. It is, indeed, in the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Vivaldi Sacred Music, Volume 6

Volume 6 of Robert King’s most welcome complete cycle of Vivaldi’s sacred music brings a mixture of functional bits and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2001

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