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Historic French Orchestral Recordings

Collectors who remember the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra from its records of the late 1950s and early 1960s will have little...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1991

British Light Music Classics, Vol 4

So here’s another welcome dip into the bran­tub of British Light Music Classics; and the mix is much as usual....

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Martinu (The) Greek Passion

The story of Martin?’s penultimate opera – of which the second, more conventional version is given here (albeit in slightly...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2008

French piano music for four hands

It would be hard to conceive of a more delightful and homogeneous collection of music for young people than the...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1987

The Best of Waldteufel, Vol. 5

Alfred Walter continues his Waldteufel series with characteristic professionalism, the Slovak orchestra at Kosice play with warmth and considerable polish...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1996

Shostakovich/Prokofiev Violin Concertos

It might seem perverse of Erato to have sanctioned a recording of the Shostakovich concerto so soon after Maxim Vengerov’s...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Bach; Webern Ricercar

Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2003

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 15 and 17

Some recoupling of Gilels's distinguished library of Beethoven piano sonata recordings was, I suppose, inevitable when CD reissues were being...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1986

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, etc

The two Piano Sonatas, Opp. 53 and 54 of 1804, signalled the beginning of a new phase in Beethoven's compositional...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Suppé Overtures, Volume 2

I gave a warm welcome last year to the first CD of overtures Suppe overtures from Kuhn and the RPO...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1991

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