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Mendelssohn Paulus

There is a strong case for having a version of Mendelssohn’s “other oratorio” on instruments of the period, even though...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009

Schubert Schwanengesang

I much admired this team's Winterreise when it appeared on CD (CD50-8008/9, 9/85). For several reasons I am less enamoured...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1986

Popular Orchestral Works

This is one of those CDs which demonstrates only too well that if the microphone placing, within a chosen acoustic,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985

Ravel Piano Concertos, etc

The first impression of this Ravel G major Concerto is of vivacity combined with delicacy, and that initial view is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1 & 6

Two impressive performances. While both symphonies are well represented on LP and CD neither has been coupled together before and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1988

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1; Sonata No 4

I'm not alone, I imagine, in having mixed reactions to Michelangeli's Beethoven, and after listening to these three CDs I...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/1988

Brahms/Schoenberg Orchestral Works

This coupling strikes me as altogether more successful than the pairing of Brahms's Fourth Symphony and Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Mengelberg conducts Richard Strauss

It is March 1940 in Amsterdam, merely weeks before the fall of Holland and some seven months before the enforced...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Mahler Symphony No 5

Riccardo Chailly is not rushing to complete his Mahler cycle. “Anyway”, as he told RC (5/95, page 21), “I feel...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/1998

Shostakovich Symphonies

Alexander Rahbari draws authoritative and characterful playing from his orchestra (not the same group as heard on three recent undistinguished...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

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