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Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
Three pieces: a new concerto, an old friend in a (not very) different guise, and a repertory staple. The “new...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2009
As diligent readers of Gramophone will have noticed, the Bel Canto Society have been offering opera lovers interested...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997
George Harrison dubbed Shankar ‘the Father of World Music’. I know what he meant, and he meant well, but the...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 12/2002
The Ulster Orchestra have made a considerable name for themselves, not least through a discerning choice of music for their...
Reviewed in issue 8/1987
Celebrating Birmingham’s newly refurbished Town Hall and organ, this programme is the kind that a century ago would have had...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2007
I think this is the finest record so far from the astonishing Clement lanequin Ensemble, for three reasons. The first...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1988
This slimline rearrangement of Haitink's Mahler cycle comes little more than a year after Philips presented it complete with couplings...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1994
It's always stimulating to discover a composer whose name you've never heard before and of whose music you've never heard...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Collectors familiar with APR’s previous releases of Simon Barere’s complete 1934/36 HMV recordings (12/85) will want to know how the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/2005
Though I’d heard tales of this still young German-born, Russian-trained pianist and his many and varied accolades throughout two decades...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/2003
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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