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Bomtempo Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Born in Lisbon of an Italian father, João Domingos Bomtempo spent much of his career in Paris and London, developing...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2004

Stokowski conducts Philadelphia Rarities

“Everybody in the whole Academy was singing – except one music critic,” recalled a light-hearted Leopold Stokowski at a 1935...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Chopin Works for Piano and Orchestra

If anyone is disconcerted by the idea of having a Chopin concerto played on an 1851 Erard piano, then let...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998

Mahler Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

It doesn't make much sense to pair these works (so far as I am aware the present coupling is unique)...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Competitors: Russia's Child Prodigies

This dreary if perversely instructive DVD charts the ups and downs (mainly downs) of four young Russian pianists as they...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2011

Inessa Galante - A B C

The Latvian soprano has one of the loveliest voices of our time‚ smooth and rich and‚ at its centre‚ comparable...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Bach Cantatas, Vol 20

After a busy Easter in Leipzig in 1724, Bach’s May was no less productive, even though his scoring was proportionally...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2003

Respighi String Quartet in D; Il Tramonto

An excellent coupling. For a start the one moderately popular work here, Il tramonto, receives a pretty well ideal performance...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2000

Besozzi Works for Oboe and Continuo

Six pretty but intellectually undemanding sonatas published in 1754 by Alessandro Besozzi, a leading oboist of his day famous for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1999

British Light Music Discoveries Vol 5

In some ways the most unexpected item here may be Geoffrey Toye’s waltz from the ballet The Haunted Ballroom, since...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 13/2003

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