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Bartók. Debussy Piano Works

Now in his mid-thirties and a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, Florent Boffard is, on the evidence of this disc,...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Ziehrer Selected Dances and Marches, Vol 2

This second volume of Marco Polo’s Ziehrer series has a major plus in Michael Dittrich’s ever lively and imaginative conducting....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1998

Beethoven Cello Sonatas, Vol. 1

This is the first volume of Beethoven's complete works for cello and fortepiano, works which were, in turn, the first...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1995

Sibelius; Vaughan Williams Symphonies No 4

The nickname “Flash Harry” may have stuck but there’s absolutely nothing showy about Sargent’s 1963 Proms account of Vaughan Williams’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2008

Payne Chamber and Vocal Works

Appearing soon after the success of his elaboration of the sketches for Elgar’s Symphony No. 3 (NMC, 3/98), this disc...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1998

Wagner Overtures & Preludes

The rich quality of this CD admirably conveys the sound of the VPO one remembers so well; that warm string...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

Bach Arias

The Venice Baroque Orchestra have already made friends with their vigorous and colourful Vivaldi. Bach is, of course, quite a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2002

Elisabeth Schumann (1885-1952) - I

The transfers are fine, the records themselves delightful as ever. Perhaps that (about the records) does not need saying: how...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker - excerpts

Though this version of The Nutcracker was recorded in the same venue as the parallel recording of Swan Lake (see...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1989

Rameau Castor et Pollux

Castor et Pollux was Rameau's second tragedie en musique. Its first performance took place in October 1737 but, though the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993

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