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Janácek From the House of the Dead

It is curious that this 15-year-old performance should have taken so long to reach England, especially when it could presumably...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1994

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Complementing its Chopin release from Cortot and Moiseiwitsch, Naxos now offers the first disc in a series devoted to Arthur...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2008

Toscanini conducts French Works

One would expect the Franck Symphony to be a perfect vehicle for Toscanini, and so it proves. Yet he didn't...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Langgaard Symphonies Nos 9-11

Incalculability is essential for prolific symphonists – think of the diversity of Haydn‚ Shostakovich or Brian – but rarely so...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Stravinsky Songs

This is one of many Stravinsky recordings first issued in his centenary year, and its remastered reappearance is most welcome....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1992

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Pickwick, who distribute IMG Records, already have a distinguished, albeit sober-sided account of the Fifth in the catalogue from Skrowaczewski,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Berlioz Vocal & Orchestral Works

Temperamentally, with his bent for the romantic and the histrionic, Barenboim is admirably suited to the arch-romantic, arch-histrionic Berlioz; and...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1993

Bach: Flute Works

Hard on the heels of CD issues of Bach's flute sonatas played by Stephen Preston (CRD) and Barthold Kuijken (Deutsche...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1990

Strauss, R Till Eulenspiegel

It is always interesting to watch a rehearsal in progress‚ all the more so when the orchestra in question is...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Beethoven Overtures; Minuets; Dances

It is a pleasure to find a company using its back-catalogue for reissues as imaginatively as Philips are doing in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1994

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