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Maestro or Mephisto: The Real George Solti

This likeable documentary was first broadcast in the UK last November, following the centenary of Solti’s birth. The feature shows...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

Russian Trumpet Concertos

Connoisseurs of the trumpet repertoire, please take note. You may already have more versions than you want of the ubiquitous...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2013

VILLA-LOBOS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Let’s face it, traditional forms – with the notable exception of the string quartet – did not bring out the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2013

VERDI Overtures and Preludes

This is a particularly happy contribution to the Verdi bicentenary. The orchestra has been breastfed on the music and the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2013

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 5

I rather expected that comparisons between these two versions of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony would throw up some significant contrasts...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2013

TELEMANN Ouvertures pittoresques

This Telemann disc – the first from admired Polish outfit Arte dei Suonatori – brings together two familiar strands from...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013

SUPPÉ Overtures & Marches

Mere contemplation of a new CD of Suppé overtures is enough to set the spirits racing. What other composer created...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 05/2013

STRAUSS Don Quixote. Till Eulenspiegel

Oddly enough, just before this disc dropped through the door I was listening to Pierre Fournier’s 1960s recording of Don...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013

RUBINSTEIN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

No one in his lifetime doubted Anton Rubinstein’s brilliance as a pianist, though he always thought of himself as first...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2013

RESPIGHI Complete Orchestral Music Volume 2

Disc 1 in Francesco La Vecchia’s second volume of Respighi’s complete orchestral output for Brilliant Classics houses three works from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2013

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