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Ravel Orchestral Works

Less than 12 months separated the Ballets Russes premieres in Paris of Daphnis and The Rite of Spring. If the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1993

Stokowski - A French Concert

Recordings made as Stokowski approached and arrived at a hale-and-hearty 90, with the conjuror-conductor's powers shining as brightly as ever....

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 1/2000

Mozart Don Giovanni

I reviewed the CD from the second season of this production (Virgin, 8/00). In 2002 Daniel Harding remained in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2006

Delius Orchestral Works

This new Brigg Fair is unique. Apologies in advance to ornithologists—your reviewer doesn't know his peewit from his pterodactyl—but what...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1994

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

That Haydn's The Seasons has not enjoyed the level of popularity of its predecessor, The Creation, doubtless owes much to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1992

Vivaldi Works for Cello

Christophe Coin's third solo Vivaldi disc completes his recording of the nine cello sonatas (the six which used to masquerade...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1992

Haydn Symphonies

Despite their name, the Montreal Sinfonietta sound rather larger than the orchestras on the comparative versions listed above, though they're...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1993

Nadia Reisenberg - Carnegie Hall, 1947

If in Blake’s immortal aphorism “exuberance is beauty”, then you need look no further than Bridge’s two-CD issue of Nadia...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2010

Chadwick Orchestral Works

Can these really be the same Symphonic Sketches to which I reacted in such lukewarm fashion when reviewing Neeme Jarvi’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1996

D.Scarlatti Cantatas, Vol.3

The gulf that used to yawn between musical scholars and performers has been increasingly bridged over the last 40 or...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1992

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